PSD:1 The Unix Time-Sharing System Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson's original paper about UNIX, reprinted from Communications of the ACM. (encumbered)
PSD:2 Unix Implementation Ken Thompson's description of the implementation of the Version 7 kernel and file system. (encumbered)
PSD:3 The Unix I/O System Dennis Ritchie's overview of the I/O System of Version 7; still helpful for those writing device drivers. (encumbered)
PSD:4 Unix Programming - Second Edition Describes the programming interface to the UNIX version 7 operating system and the standard I/O library. Should be supplemented by Kernighan and Pike, ``The UNIX Programming Environment'', Prentice-Hall, 1984 and especially by the Programmer Reference Manual section 2 (system calls) and 3 (library routines). (encumbered)
PSD:5 Berkeley Software Architecture Manual (4.4 Edition) A concise and terse description of the system call interface provided in Berkeley Unix, as revised for 4.4BSD. This will never be a best seller.
Languages in common use
PSD:6 The C Programming Language - Reference Manual Official statement of the syntax of C. Should be supplemented by ``The C Programming Language,'' B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie, Prentice-Hall, 1978, that contains a tutorial introduction and many examples. (encumbered)
PSD:7 Berkeley Pascal User's Manual An implementation of this language popular for learning to program. (Not provided in FreeBSD.)
PSD:8 A Portable Fortran 77 Compiler A revised version of the document which originally appeared in Volume 2b of the Bell Labs documentation; this version reflects the work done at Berkeley. (encumbered)
PSD:9 Introduction to the f77 I/O Library A description of the revised input/output library for Fortran 77, reflecting work carried out at Berkeley. (Not provided in FreeBSD.)
Programming Tools
PSD:10 Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger How to debug programs using the source level gdb debugger (or how to debug programs without having to know much about machine language). (A TeXinfo version is provided separately.)
PSD:11 A Tutorial Introduction to ADB How to debug programs using the assembly-language level adb debugger. (encumbered)
PSD:12 Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs (Postscript, PDF, ASCII) Indispensable tool for making sure large programs are properly compiled with minimal effort.
PSD:13 An Introduction to the Revision Control System Functions of RCS RCS is a user-contributed tool for working together with other people without stepping on each other's toes. An alternative to sccs for controlling software changes.
PSD:14 An Introduction to the Source Code Control System A useful introductory article for those users with installations licensed for SCCS. (encumbered)
PSD:15 YACC: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler Converts a BNF specification of a language and semantic actions written in C into a compiler for that language. (encumbered)
PSD:16 LEX - A Lexical Analyzer Generator Creates a recognizer for a set of regular expressions: each regular expression can be followed by arbitrary C code to be executed upon finding the regular expression. (encumbered)
PSD:17 The M4 Macro Processor M4 is a macro processor useful in its own right and as a front-end for C, Ratfor, and Cobol.
PSD:18 gprof - a Call Graph Execution Profiler A program to show the call graph and execution time of a program. Indispensable aid for improving the running time of almost everything.
Programming Libraries
PSD:19 Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization Describes the curses package, an aid for writing screen-oriented, terminal-independent programs.
General Reference
PSD:20 An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial How to write programs that use the Interprocess Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD.
PSD:21 An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial The reference document (with some examples) for the Interprocess Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD.
PSD:22 RPCGEN Programming Guide Manual for the ONC RPC stub-generating program, provided by Sun Microsystems.
PSD:23 Remote Procedure Call Programming Guide A tutorial introduction to programming the ONC RPC system, provided by Sun Microsystems.
PSD:24 External Data Representation: Sun Technical Notes Technical details about the design of the XDR component of ONC RPC, provided by Sun Microsystems.
PSD:25 External Data Representation Standard: Protocol Specification The Internet RFC specifying ONC XDR, provided by Sun Microsystems.
PSD:26 Remote Procedure Calls: Protocol Specification The Internet RFC specifying ONC RPC, RFC 1050, as provided by Sun Microsystems.
PSD:27 Network File System: Version 2 Protocol Specification The Internet RFC specifying NFS, as provided by Sun Microsystems. Note that the NFS-compatible filesystem itself, while compliant with this specification, was not provided by Sun.
PSD:28 CVS II: Parallelizing Software Development CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a front end to the RCS revision control system which extends the notion of revision control from a collection of files in a single directory to a hierarchical collection of directories each containing revision controlled files.
UNIX System Manager's Manual (SMM)
SMM:1 Installing and Operating 4.4BSD The definitive reference document for those occasions when you find you need to start over again.
SMM:2 Building 4.4BSD Kernels with Config In-depth discussions of the use and operation of the config program, and how to build your very own Unix kernel.
SMM:3 Fsck - The UNIX File System Check Program A reference document for using the fsck program during times of file system distress.
SMM:4 Disc Quotas in a UNIX Environment A light introduction to the techniques for limiting the use of disc resources.
SMM:5 A Fast File System for UNIX A description of the 4.4BSD file system organization, design and implementation.
SMM:6 The 4.4BSD NFS Implementation An overview of the design, implementation, and use of NFS on 4.4BSD.
SMM:7 Line Printer Spooler Manual This document describes the structure and installation procedure for the line printer spooling system.
SMM:8 Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide The last word in installing and operating the sendmail program.
SMM:9 Sendmail - An Internetwork Mail Router An overview document on the design and implementation of sendmail.
SMM:10 Name Server Operations Guide for BIND Setting up and operating the name to Internet addressing software. If you have a network this will be of interest. A documentation for BIND Release 4.9.4 is avaialble from http://www.kvikkjokk.com/docs/bind/bog.html
SMM:11 Timed Installation and Operation Guide Describes how to maintain time synchronization between machines in a local network.
SMM:12 The Berkeley UNIX Time Synchronization Protocol The protocols and algorithms used by timed, the network time synchronization daemon.
SMM:13 AMD - The 4.4BSD Automounter Automatically mounting file systems on demand.
SMM:14 Installation and Operation of UUCP Describes the implementation of uucp; for the installer and administrator.
SMM:15 A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems Describes UUCP, a program for communicating files between UNIX systems.
SMM:16 On the Security of UNIX Hints on how to break UNIX, and how to avoid your system being broken.
SMM:17 Password Security - A Case History How the bad guys used to be able to break the password algorithm, and why they cannot now (at least not so easily).
SMM:18 Networking Implementation Notes, 4.4BSD Edition A concise description of the system interfaces used within the networking subsystem.
UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)
Getting Started
USD:1 Unix for Beginners - Second Edition An introduction to the most basic uses of the system.
USD:2 Learn - Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (Second Edit) Describes a computer-aided instruction program that walks new users through the basics of files, the editor, and document prepararation software.
Basic Utilities
USD:3 An Introduction to the UNIX Shell Steve Bourne's introduction to the capabilities of sh, a command interpreter especially popular for writing shell scripts.
USD:4 An Introduction to the C shell This introduction to csh, (a command interpreter popular for interactive work) describes many commonly used UNIX commands, assumes little prior knowledge of UNIX, and has a glossary useful for beginners.
USD:5 DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator A super HP calculator, if you do not need floating point.
USD:6 BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language A front end for DC that provides infix notation, control flow, and built-in functions.
Communicating with the World
USD:7 Mail Reference Manual Complete details on one of the programs for sending and reading your mail.
USD:8 The Rand MH Message Handling System This system for managing your computer mail uses lots of small programs, instead of one large one.
Text Editing
USD:9 A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor An easy way to get started with the line editor, ed.
USD:10 Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7) The final reference for the ex editor.
USD:11 Advanced Editing on Unix The next step.
USD:12 An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi The document to learn to use the vi screen editor.
USD:13 Vi Reference Manual The definitive reference for the nvi editor.
USD:14 Jove Manual for UNIX Users Jove is a small, self-documenting, customizable display editor, based on EMACS. A plausible alternative to vi.
USD:15 SED - A Non-interactive Text Editor Describes a one-pass variant of ed useful as a filter for processing large files.
USD:16 AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition) A program for data selection and transformation.
Document Preparation
USD:17 Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the -ms Macros with Troff Describes and gives examples of the basic use of the typesetting tools and ``-ms'', a frequently used package of formatting requests that make it easier to lay out most documents.
USD:18 A Revised Version of -ms A brief description of the Berkeley revisions made to the -ms formatting macros for nroff and troff.
USD:19 Writing Papers with nroff using -me Another popular macro package for nroff.
USD:20 -me Reference Manual The final word on -me.
USD:21 NROFF/TROFF User's Manual Extremely detailed information about these document formatting programs.
USD:22 A TROFF Tutorial An introduction to the most basic uses of troff for those who really want to know such things, or want to write their own macros.
USD:23 A System for Typesetting Mathematics Describes eqn, an easy-to-learn language for high-quality mathematical typesetting.
USD:24 Typesetting Mathematics - User's Guide (Second Edition) More details about how to use eqn.
USD:25 Tbl - A Program to Format Tables A program for easily typesetting tabular material.
USD:26 Refer - A Bibliography System An introduction to one set of tools used to maintain bibliographic databases. The major program, refer, is used to automatically retrieve and format the references based on document citations.
USD:27 Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System Mike Lesk's paper describes the refer programs in a somewhat larger context.
USD:28 BIB - A Program for Formatting Bibliographies This is an alternative to refer for expanding citations in documents.
USD:29 Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs These are programs which can help you understand and improve your writing style.
Amusements
USD:30 A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom An introduction to the popular game of rogue, a fantasy game which is one of the biggest known users of VAX cycles.
USD:31 Star Trek You are the Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Wipe out the Klingons and save the Federation.
