Sorting top command output in HP_UX 11.11

Hello all,

I've been woking on Solaris and Linux (Red Hat) so far but now I've inherited an HP-UX system and having minor issues with syntax...Appreciate if you could help me out here..

1) I'm trying to sort the output of the top command in HP-UX 11.11 by pressing O (capital O) after typing the top command but it has no effect. I'm able to do this on Solaris and Linux successfully..I even tried M (capital M) to sort the top output by memory but no effect again. Am I missing something here?

2) another question unrelated to the above question...How do I navigate through different screens after typing the "glance" command? I tried F1 to F8 but did not notice anticipated results...

Thanks for you time...

My HPUX had man for top and glance, top does not admit to such options, glance has letter commands if your function keys do not connect -- mine do not:

 COMMAND SUMMARY
      The following commands are grouped  into  three  sections;  top  level
      screens, secondary screens, and miscellaneous commands.  The top level
      screen commands are the only ones allowed on the command line.
          _____________________________________________________________
          |Command |          Screen Displayed / Description           |
          |________|___________________________________________________|
          |   a    | CPU By Processor                                  |
          |   c    | CPU Report                                        |
          |   d    | Disk Report                                       |
          |   g    | Process List                                      |
          |   i    | IO By File System                                 |
          |   l    | Network By Interface                              |
          |   m    | Memory Report                                     |
          |   n    | NFS By System                                     |
          |   t    | System Tables Report                              |
          |   u    | IO By Disk                                        |
          |   v    | IO By Logical Volume                              |
          |   w    | Swap Space                                        |
          |   A    | Application List                                  |
          |   B    | Global Waits                                      |
          |   D    | DCE Global Activity                               |
          |   G    | Process Threads                                   |
          |   H    | Alarm History                                     |
          |   I    | Thread Resource                                   |
          |   J    | Thread Wait                                       |
          |   K    | DCE Process List                                  |
          |   N    | NFS Global Activity                               |
          |   P    | PRM Group List                                    |
          |   T    | Transaction Tracker                               |
          |   Y    | Global System Calls                               |
          |   Z    | Global Threads                                    |
          |   ?    | Commands Menu                                     |
          |________|___________________________________________________|
          |   S    | Select a NFS system/Disk/Application/Trans/Thread |
          |   s    | Select a single process                           |
          |   F    | Process Open Files                                |
          |   L    | Process System Calls                              |
          |   M    | Process Memory Regions                            |
          |   R    | Process Resources                                 |
          |   W    | Process Wait States                               |
          |________|___________________________________________________|
 
 
 
 
 

                                    - 4 -          Formatted:  June 27, 2005
 
 

 glance(1)                          HP-UX                          glance(1)
                              January 23, 1999
 
                     _______________________________________
                     |Command |         Description         |
                     |________|_____________________________|
                     |   b    | Scroll page backward        |
                     |   f    | Scroll page forward         |
                     |   h    | Online help                 |
                     |   j    | Adjust refresh interval     |
                     |   o    | Adjust process threshold    |
                     |   p    | Print toggle                |
                     |  e/q   | Quit GlancePlus             |
                     |   r    | Refresh the current screen  |
                     |   y    | Renice a process            |
                     |   z    | Reset statistics to zero    |
                     |   >    | Display next logical screen |
                     |   <    | Display previous screen     |
                     |   !    | Invoke a shell              |
                     |________|_____________________________|
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Thanks DGPicket for the quick response...