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17: <h2>Getting Started</h2>
18:
19: <h3>Unix for Beginners - Second Edition</h3>
20:
21: An introduction to the most basic uses of the system.
22:
23: <h3>Learn - Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (Second Edition)</h3>
24:
25: Describes a computer-aided instruction program that walks new users through
1.4 miod 26: the basics of files, the editor, and document preparation software.
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28: Basic Utilities
29:
30: <h3>An Introduction to the UNIX Shell</h3>
31:
32: Steve Bourne's introduction to the capabilities of
33: <b>sh</b>,
34: a command interpreter especially popular for writing shell scripts.
35:
36: <h3>An Introduction to the C shell</h3>
37:
38: This introduction to
39: <b>csh</b>,
40: (a command interpreter popular for interactive work) describes many
41: commonly used UNIX commands, assumes little prior knowledge of UNIX,
42: and has a glossary useful for beginners.
43:
44: <h3>DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator</h3>
45:
46: A super HP calculator, if you do not need floating point.
47:
48: <h3>BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language</h3>
49:
50: A front end for DC that provides infix notation, control flow, and
51: built-in functions.
52:
53: Communicating with the World
54:
55: <h3>Mail Reference Manual</h3>
56:
57: Complete details on one of the programs for sending and reading your mail.
58:
59: <h3>The Rand MH Message Handling System</h3>
60:
61: This system for managing your computer mail uses lots of small programs,
62: instead of one large one.
63:
64: <h3>How to Read the Network News</h3>
65:
66: Describes how news works (generally) and some alternatives for reading it,
67: <b>readnews</b>
68: and
69: <b>vnews</b>.
70:
71: <h3>How to Use USENET Effectively</h3>
72:
73: Describes the customs, protocols, and etiquette of network news, plus answers
74: to the questions most frequently asked by newcomers to the network.
75:
76: <h3>Notesfile Reference Manual</h3>
77:
78: This feature-packed system for maintaining computer-aided discussion groups is
79: also useful for reading netnews.
80:
81: Text Editing
82:
83: <h3>A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor</h3>
84:
85: An easy way to get started with the line editor,
86: <b>ed</b>.
87:
88: <h3>Advanced Editing on Unix</h3>
89:
90: The next step.
91:
92: <h3>Edit: A Tutorial</h3>
93:
94: An introduction to
95: <b>edit</b>,
96: a line-oriented editor which is a version of
97: <b>ex</b>,
98: assuming no previous knowledge of UNIX or text editing.
99:
100: <h3>An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi</h3>
101:
102: The document to learn to use the <b>vi</b> screen editor.
103:
104: <h3>Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7)</h3>
105:
106: The final reference for the <b>ex</b> editor, which underlies both
107: <b>edit</b>
108: and <b>vi</b>.
109:
110: <h3>Jove Manual for UNIX Users</h3>
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112: Jove is a small, self-documenting, customizable display editor, based on
113: EMACS. A plausible alternative to
114: <b>vi</b>.
115:
116: <h3>SED - A Non-interactive Text Editor</h3>
117:
118: Describes a one-pass variant of
119: <b>ed</b>
120: useful as a filter for processing large files.
121:
122: <h3>AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition)</h3>
123:
124: A program for data selection and transformation.
125:
126: <h2>Document Preparation</h2>
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128: <h3>Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the -ms Macros with Troff and Nroff</h3>
129:
130: Describes and gives examples of the basic use of the typesetting tools and
131: ``-ms'', a frequently used package of formatting requests that make it easier
132: to lay out most documents.
133:
134: <h3>A Revised Version of -ms</h3>
135:
136: A brief description of the Berkeley revisions made to the -ms formatting
137: macros for nroff and troff.
138:
139: <h3>Writing Papers with <b>nroff</b> using -me</h3>
140:
141: Another popular macro package for
142: <b>nroff</b>.
143:
144: <h3>-me Reference Manual</h3>
145:
146: The final word on -me.
147:
148: <h3>NROFF/TROFF User's Manual</h3>
149:
150: Extremely detailed information about these document formatting programs.
151:
152: <h3>A TROFF Tutorial</h3>
153:
154: An introduction to the most basic uses of
155: <b>troff</b>
156: for those who really want to know such things, or want to write their
157: own macros.
158:
159: <h3>A System for Typesetting Mathematics</h3>
160:
161: Describes
162: <b>eqn</b>,
163: an easy-to-learn language for high-quality mathematical typesetting.
164:
165: <h3>Typesetting Mathematics - User's Guide (Second Edition)</h3>
166:
167: More details about how to use
168: <b>eqn</b>.
169:
170: <h3>Tbl - A Program to Format Tables</h3>
171:
172: A program for easily typesetting tabular material.
173:
174: <h3>Refer - A Bibliography System</h3>
175:
176: An introduction to one set of tools used to maintain bibliographic databases.
177: The major program,
178: <b>refer</b>,
179: is used to automatically retrieve and format the references
180: based on document citations.
181:
182: <h3>Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System</h3>
183:
184: Mike Lesk's paper describes the
185: <b>refer</b>
186: programs in a somewhat larger context.
187:
188: <h3>BIB - A Program for Formatting Bibliographies</h3>
189:
190: This is an alternative to
191: <b>refer</b>
192: for expanding citations in documents.
193:
194: <h3>Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs</h3>
195:
196: These are programs which can help you understand and improve your
197: writing style.
198:
199: <h2>Amusements</h2>
200:
201: <h3>A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom</h3>
202:
203: An introduction to the popular game of <b>rogue</b>, a fantasy game
204: which is one of the biggest known users of VAX cycles.
205:
206: <h3>Star Trek</h3>
207:
208: You are the Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Wipe out the
209: Klingons and save the Federation.
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