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1.1       deraadt    12: <h1>4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents (PSD)</h1>
                     13:
                     14: <h2>Documents of Historical Interest</h2>
                     15:
                     16: <h3>The Unix Time-Sharing System</h3>
                     17:
                     18: Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson's original paper about UNIX, reprinted
                     19: from Communications of the ACM.
                     20:
                     21: <h3>Unix Implementation</h3>
                     22:
                     23: Ken Thompson's description of the implementation of the Version 7
                     24: kernel and file system.
                     25:
                     26: <h3>The Unix I/O System</h3>
                     27:
                     28: Dennis Ritchie's overview of the I/O System of Version 7; still helpful for
                     29: those writing device drivers.
                     30:
                     31: <h3>Unix Programming - Second Edition</h3>
                     32:
                     33: Describes the programming interface to the UNIX version 7 operating
                     34: system and the standard I/O library.  Should be supplemented by
                     35: Kernighan and Pike, ``The UNIX Programming Environment'',
                     36: Prentice-Hall, 1984 and especially by the Programmer Reference Manual
                     37: section 2 (system calls) and 3 (library routines).
                     38:
1.6       lum        39: <h3>Berkeley Software Architecture Manual (4.4 Edition)</h3>
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                     41: A concise and terse description of the system call interface
                     42: provided in Berkeley Unix, as revised for 4.4BSD.
                     43: This will never be a best seller.
                     44:
                     45: <h2>Languages in common use</h2>
                     46:
                     47: <h3>The C Programming Language - Reference Manual</h3>
                     48:
                     49: Official statement of the syntax of C.
                     50: Should be supplemented by ``The C Programming Language,''
                     51: B.W. Kernighan and D.M. Ritchie, Prentice-Hall, 1978, that
                     52: contains a tutorial introduction and many examples.
                     53:
                     54: <h3>Berkeley Pascal User's Manual</h3>
                     55:
                     56: An implementation of this language popular for learning to program.
                     57:
                     58: <h3>A Portable Fortran 77 Compiler</h3>
                     59:
                     60: A revised version of the document which originally appeared in
                     61: Volume 2b of the Bell Labs documentation;
                     62: this version reflects the work done at Berkeley.
                     63:
                     64: <h3>Introduction to the f77 I/O Library</h3>
                     65:
                     66: A description of the revised input/output library for Fortran 77,
                     67: reflecting work carried out at Berkeley.
                     68:
                     69: <h2>Programming Tools</h2>
                     70:
                     71: <h3>Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger</h3>
                     72:
1.5       david      73: How to debug programs using the source level <b>gdb</b> debugger
1.1       deraadt    74: (or how to debug programs without having to know much about machine language).
                     75:
                     76: <h3>A Tutorial Introduction to ADB</h3>
                     77:
1.5       david      78: How to debug programs using the assembly-language level <b>adb</b> debugger.
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                     80: <h3>Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs</h3>
                     81:
                     82: Indispensable tool for making sure large programs are properly
                     83: compiled with minimal effort.
                     84:
                     85: <h3>An Introduction to the Revision Control System</h3>
                     86:
                     87: RCS is a user-contributed tool for working together with other people
                     88: without stepping on each other's toes.
1.5       david      89: An alternative to <b>sccs</b> for controlling software changes.
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                     91: <h3>An Introduction to the Source Code Control System</h3>
                     92:
                     93: A useful introductory article for those users with
                     94: installations licensed for SCCS.
                     95:
                     96: <h3>YACC: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler</h3>
                     97:
                     98: Converts a BNF specification of a language and semantic actions
                     99: written in C into a compiler for that language.
                    100:
                    101: <h3>LEX - A Lexical Analyzer Generator</h3>
                    102:
                    103: Creates a recognizer for a set of regular expressions:
                    104: each regular expression can be followed by arbitrary C code
                    105: to be executed upon finding the regular expression.
                    106:
                    107: <h3>The M4 Macro Processor</h3>
                    108:
                    109: M4 is a macro processor useful in its own right and as a
                    110: front-end for C, Ratfor, and Cobol.
                    111:
                    112: <h3>gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler</h3>
                    113:
                    114: A program to show the call graph and execution time of a program.
                    115: Indispensable aid for improving the running time of almost everything.
                    116:
                    117: <h2>Programming Libraries</h2>
                    118:
                    119: <h3>Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization</h3>
                    120:
1.5       david     121: Describes the <b>curses</b> package, an aid for writing screen-oriented,
1.1       deraadt   122: terminal-independent programs.
                    123:
                    124: <h2>General Reference</h2>
                    125:
1.6       lum       126: <h3>An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial</h3>
1.1       deraadt   127:
                    128: How to write programs that use the Interprocess Communication Facilities
                    129: of 4.4BSD.
                    130:
1.6       lum       131: <h3>An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial</h3>
1.1       deraadt   132:
                    133: The reference document (with some examples) for the Interprocess Communication
                    134: Facilities of 4.4BSD.
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