Subject: Re: Current snapshot (15 May 95)
To: None <apollo@wilma.enigma.net>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 06/03/1995 16:38:23 
   I have a problem with the 'ps' command. It outputs some strange control
   characters like "\M\@\M-^\M" under the 'COMMAND' column.

That means you installed a new kernel or new ps(1) without updating
the other one of the two.  The way argument strings are located in a
process is different now.