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9: <h2>Getting Started</h2>
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11: <h3>Unix for Beginners - Second Edition</h3>
12:
13: An introduction to the most basic uses of the system.
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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>
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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.
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92: <h3>An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi</h3>
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94: The document to learn to use the <b>vi</b> screen editor.
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96: <h3>Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7)</h3>
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98: The final reference for the <b>ex</b> editor, which underlies both
99: <b>edit</b>
100: and <b>vi</b>.
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102: <h3>Jove Manual for UNIX Users</h3>
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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>
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110: Describes a one-pass variant of
111: <b>ed</b>
112: useful as a filter for processing large files.
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114: <h3>AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition)</h3>
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116: A program for data selection and transformation.
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118: <h2>Document Preparation</h2>
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120: <h3>Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the -ms Macros with Troff and Nroff</h3>
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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.
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126: <h3>A Revised Version of -ms</h3>
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128: A brief description of the Berkeley revisions made to the -ms formatting
129: macros for nroff and troff.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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