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                      7: <h1>4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents (PSD)</h1>
                      8:
                      9: <h2>Documents of Historical Interest</h2>
                     10:
                     11: <h3>The Unix Time-Sharing System</h3>
                     12:
                     13: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson's original paper about UNIX, reprinted
                     14: from Communications of the ACM.
                     15:
                     16: <h3>Unix Implementation</h3>
                     17:
                     18: Ken Thompson's description of the implementation of the Version 7
                     19: kernel and file system.
                     20:
                     21: <h3>The Unix I/O System</h3>
                     22:
                     23: Dennis Ritchie's overview of the I/O System of Version 7; still helpful for
                     24: those writing device drivers.
                     25:
                     26: <h3>Unix Programming - Second Edition</h3>
                     27:
                     28: Describes the programming interface to the UNIX version 7 operating
                     29: system and the standard I/O library.  Should be supplemented by
                     30: Kernighan and Pike, ``The UNIX Programming Environment'',
                     31: Prentice-Hall, 1984 and especially by the Programmer Reference Manual
                     32: section 2 (system calls) and 3 (library routines).
                     33:
                     34: <h3><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/share/doc/psd/05.sysman">Berkeley Software Architecture Manual (4.4 Edition)</a></h3>
                     35:
                     36: A concise and terse description of the system call interface
                     37: provided in Berkeley Unix, as revised for 4.4BSD.
                     38: This will never be a best seller.
                     39:
                     40: <h2>Languages in common use</h2>
                     41:
                     42: <h3>The C Programming Language - Reference Manual</h3>
                     43:
                     44: Official statement of the syntax of C.
                     45: Should be supplemented by ``The C Programming Language,''
                     46: B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie, Prentice-Hall, 1978, that
                     47: contains a tutorial introduction and many examples.
                     48:
                     49: <h3>Berkeley Pascal User's Manual</h3>
                     50:
                     51: An implementation of this language popular for learning to program.
                     52:
                     53: <h3>A Portable Fortran 77 Compiler</h3>
                     54:
                     55: A revised version of the document which originally appeared in
                     56: Volume 2b of the Bell Labs documentation;
                     57: this version reflects the work done at Berkeley.
                     58:
                     59: <h3>Introduction to the f77 I/O Library</h3>
                     60:
                     61: A description of the revised input/output library for Fortran 77,
                     62: reflecting work carried out at Berkeley.
                     63:
                     64: <h2>Programming Tools</h2>
                     65:
                     66: <h3>Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger</h3>
                     67:
                     68: How to debug programs using the source level <B>gdb</B> debugger
                     69: (or how to debug programs without having to know much about machine language).
                     70:
                     71: <h3>A Tutorial Introduction to ADB</h3>
                     72:
                     73: How to debug programs using the assembly-language level <B>adb</B> debugger.
                     74:
                     75: <h3>Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs</h3>
                     76:
                     77: Indispensable tool for making sure large programs are properly
                     78: compiled with minimal effort.
                     79:
                     80: <h3>An Introduction to the Revision Control System</h3>
                     81:
                     82: RCS is a user-contributed tool for working together with other people
                     83: without stepping on each other's toes.
                     84: An alternative to <B>sccs</B> for controlling software changes.
                     85:
                     86: <h3>An Introduction to the Source Code Control System</h3>
                     87:
                     88: A useful introductory article for those users with
                     89: installations licensed for SCCS.
                     90:
                     91: <h3>YACC: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler</h3>
                     92:
                     93: Converts a BNF specification of a language and semantic actions
                     94: written in C into a compiler for that language.
                     95:
                     96: <h3>LEX - A Lexical Analyzer Generator</h3>
                     97:
                     98: Creates a recognizer for a set of regular expressions:
                     99: each regular expression can be followed by arbitrary C code
                    100: to be executed upon finding the regular expression.
                    101:
                    102: <h3>The M4 Macro Processor</h3>
                    103:
                    104: M4 is a macro processor useful in its own right and as a
                    105: front-end for C, Ratfor, and Cobol.
                    106:
                    107: <h3>gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler</h3>
                    108:
                    109: A program to show the call graph and execution time of a program.
                    110: Indispensable aid for improving the running time of almost everything.
                    111:
                    112: <h2>Programming Libraries</h2>
                    113:
                    114: <h3>Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization</h3>
                    115:
                    116: Describes the <B>curses</B> package, an aid for writing screen-oriented,
                    117: terminal-independent programs.
                    118:
                    119: <h2>General Reference</h2>
                    120:
                    121: <h3><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/share/doc/psd/20.ipctut">An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial</a></h3>
                    122:
                    123: How to write programs that use the Interprocess Communication Facilities
                    124: of 4.4BSD.
                    125:
                    126: <h3><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/share/doc/psd/21.ipc">An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial</a></h3>
                    127:
                    128: The reference document (with some examples) for the Interprocess Communication
                    129: Facilities of 4.4BSD.
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