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! 7: <h1>UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)</h1>
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! 9: <h2>Getting Started</h2>
! 10:
! 11: <h3>Unix for Beginners - Second Edition</h3>
! 12:
! 13: An introduction to the most basic uses of the system.
! 14:
! 15: <h3>Learn - Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (Second Edition)</h3>
! 16:
! 17: Describes a computer-aided instruction program that walks new users through
! 18: the basics of files, the editor, and document prepararation software.
! 19:
! 20: Basic Utilities
! 21:
! 22: <h3>An Introduction to the UNIX Shell</h3>
! 23:
! 24: Steve Bourne's introduction to the capabilities of
! 25: <b>sh</b>,
! 26: a command interpreter especially popular for writing shell scripts.
! 27:
! 28: <h3>An Introduction to the C shell</h3>
! 29:
! 30: This introduction to
! 31: <b>csh</b>,
! 32: (a command interpreter popular for interactive work) describes many
! 33: commonly used UNIX commands, assumes little prior knowledge of UNIX,
! 34: and has a glossary useful for beginners.
! 35:
! 36: <h3>DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator</h3>
! 37:
! 38: A super HP calculator, if you do not need floating point.
! 39:
! 40: <h3>BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language</h3>
! 41:
! 42: A front end for DC that provides infix notation, control flow, and
! 43: built-in functions.
! 44:
! 45: Communicating with the World
! 46:
! 47: <h3>Mail Reference Manual</h3>
! 48:
! 49: Complete details on one of the programs for sending and reading your mail.
! 50:
! 51: <h3>The Rand MH Message Handling System</h3>
! 52:
! 53: This system for managing your computer mail uses lots of small programs,
! 54: instead of one large one.
! 55:
! 56: <h3>How to Read the Network News</h3>
! 57:
! 58: Describes how news works (generally) and some alternatives for reading it,
! 59: <b>readnews</b>
! 60: and
! 61: <b>vnews</b>.
! 62:
! 63: <h3>How to Use USENET Effectively</h3>
! 64:
! 65: Describes the customs, protocols, and etiquette of network news, plus answers
! 66: to the questions most frequently asked by newcomers to the network.
! 67:
! 68: <h3>Notesfile Reference Manual</h3>
! 69:
! 70: This feature-packed system for maintaining computer-aided discussion groups is
! 71: also useful for reading netnews.
! 72:
! 73: Text Editing
! 74:
! 75: <h3>A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor</h3>
! 76:
! 77: An easy way to get started with the line editor,
! 78: <b>ed</b>.
! 79:
! 80: <h3>Advanced Editing on Unix</h3>
! 81:
! 82: The next step.
! 83:
! 84: <h3>Edit: A Tutorial</h3>
! 85:
! 86: An introduction to
! 87: <b>edit</b>,
! 88: a line-oriented editor which is a version of
! 89: <b>ex</b>,
! 90: assuming no previous knowledge of UNIX or text editing.
! 91:
! 92: <h3>An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi</h3>
! 93:
! 94: The document to learn to use the <b>vi</b> screen editor.
! 95:
! 96: <h3>Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7)</h3>
! 97:
! 98: The final reference for the <b>ex</b> editor, which underlies both
! 99: <b>edit</b>
! 100: and <b>vi</b>.
! 101:
! 102: <h3>Jove Manual for UNIX Users</h3>
! 103:
! 104: Jove is a small, self-documenting, customizable display editor, based on
! 105: EMACS. A plausible alternative to
! 106: <b>vi</b>.
! 107:
! 108: <h3>SED - A Non-interactive Text Editor</h3>
! 109:
! 110: Describes a one-pass variant of
! 111: <b>ed</b>
! 112: useful as a filter for processing large files.
! 113:
! 114: <h3>AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition)</h3>
! 115:
! 116: A program for data selection and transformation.
! 117:
! 118: <h2>Document Preparation</h2>
! 119:
! 120: <h3>Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the -ms Macros with Troff and Nroff</h3>
! 121:
! 122: Describes and gives examples of the basic use of the typesetting tools and
! 123: ``-ms'', a frequently used package of formatting requests that make it easier
! 124: to lay out most documents.
! 125:
! 126: <h3>A Revised Version of -ms</h3>
! 127:
! 128: A brief description of the Berkeley revisions made to the -ms formatting
! 129: macros for nroff and troff.
! 130:
! 131: <h3>Writing Papers with <b>nroff</b> using -me</h3>
! 132:
! 133: Another popular macro package for
! 134: <b>nroff</b>.
! 135:
! 136: <h3>-me Reference Manual</h3>
! 137:
! 138: The final word on -me.
! 139:
! 140: <h3>NROFF/TROFF User's Manual</h3>
! 141:
! 142: Extremely detailed information about these document formatting programs.
! 143:
! 144: <h3>A TROFF Tutorial</h3>
! 145:
! 146: An introduction to the most basic uses of
! 147: <b>troff</b>
! 148: for those who really want to know such things, or want to write their
! 149: own macros.
! 150:
! 151: <h3>A System for Typesetting Mathematics</h3>
! 152:
! 153: Describes
! 154: <b>eqn</b>,
! 155: an easy-to-learn language for high-quality mathematical typesetting.
! 156:
! 157: <h3>Typesetting Mathematics - User's Guide (Second Edition)</h3>
! 158:
! 159: More details about how to use
! 160: <b>eqn</b>.
! 161:
! 162: <h3>Tbl - A Program to Format Tables</h3>
! 163:
! 164: A program for easily typesetting tabular material.
! 165:
! 166: <h3>Refer - A Bibliography System</h3>
! 167:
! 168: An introduction to one set of tools used to maintain bibliographic databases.
! 169: The major program,
! 170: <b>refer</b>,
! 171: is used to automatically retrieve and format the references
! 172: based on document citations.
! 173:
! 174: <h3>Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System</h3>
! 175:
! 176: Mike Lesk's paper describes the
! 177: <b>refer</b>
! 178: programs in a somewhat larger context.
! 179:
! 180: <h3>BIB - A Program for Formatting Bibliographies</h3>
! 181:
! 182: This is an alternative to
! 183: <b>refer</b>
! 184: for expanding citations in documents.
! 185:
! 186: <h3>Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs</h3>
! 187:
! 188: These are programs which can help you understand and improve your
! 189: writing style.
! 190:
! 191: <h2>Amusements</h2>
! 192:
! 193: <h3>A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom</h3>
! 194:
! 195: An introduction to the popular game of <b>rogue</b>, a fantasy game
! 196: which is one of the biggest known users of VAX cycles.
! 197:
! 198: <h3>Star Trek</h3>
! 199:
! 200: You are the Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Wipe out the
! 201: Klingons and save the Federation.
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