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                           June, 1993



     This  volume  contains documents which supplement the manual
pages in _T_h_e _U_N_I_X_(_R_) _P_r_o_g_r_a_m_m_e_r_'_s _R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e _M_a_n_u_a_l for the 4.4BSD
system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.

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The Unix Time-Sharing System                                PSD:1

     Dennis  Ritchie and Ken Thompson's original paper about
     UNIX, reprinted from Communications of the ACM.


Unix Implementation                                         PSD:2

     Ken Thompson's description of the implementation of the
     Version 7 kernel and file system.


The Unix I/O System                                         PSD:3

     Dennis  Ritchie's overview of the I/O System of Version
     7; still helpful for those writing device drivers.


Unix Programming - Second Edition                           PSD:4

     Describes the programming interface to the UNIX version
     7  operating  system  and  the  standard  I/O  library.
     Should be supplemented by  Kernighan  and  Pike,  ``The
     UNIX Programming Environment'', Prentice-Hall, 1984 and
     especially by the Programmer Reference Manual section 2
     (system calls) and 3 (library routines).


Berkeley Software Architecture Manual (4.4 Edition)         PSD:5

     A  concise  and  terse  description  of the system call
     interface provided in Berkeley  Unix,  as  revised  for
     4.4BSD.  This will never be a best seller.













PSD Contents


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The C Programming Language - Reference Manual               PSD:6

     Official  statement of the syntax of C.  Should be sup-
     plemented  by  ``The  C  Programming  Language,''  B.W.
     Kernighan  and  D.M. Ritchie, Prentice-Hall, 1978, that
     contains a tutorial introduction and many examples.


Berkeley Pascal User's Manual                               PSD:7

     An implementation of this language popular for learning
     to program.


A Portable Fortran 77 Compiler                              PSD:8

     A  revised  version  of  the  document which originally
     appeared in Volume 2b of the Bell  Labs  documentation;
     this version reflects the work done at Berkeley.


Introduction to the f77 I/O Library                         PSD:9

     A  description  of the revised input/output library for
     Fortran 77, reflecting work carried out at Berkeley.


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Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger          PSD:10

     How to debug programs using the source level _g_d_b debug-
     ger  (or  how  to debug programs without having to know
     much about machine language).


A Tutorial Introduction to ADB                             PSD:11

     How to debug programs using the assembly-language level
     _a_d_b debugger.


Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs         PSD:12

     Indispensable  tool  for making sure large programs are
     properly compiled with minimal effort.


An Introduction to the Revision Control System             PSD:13

     RCS is a user-contributed  tool  for  working  together
     with  other  people  without  stepping  on each other's









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     toes.  An alternative to _s_c_c_s for controlling  software
     changes.


An Introduction to the Source Code Control System          PSD:14

     A  useful  introductory  article  for  those users with
     installations licensed for SCCS.


YACC: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler                        PSD:15

     Converts a BNF specification of a language and semantic
     actions written in C into a compiler for that language.


LEX - A Lexical Analyzer Generator                         PSD:16

     Creates a recognizer for a set of regular  expressions:
     each  regular expression can be followed by arbitrary C
     code to be executed upon finding  the  regular  expres-
     sion.


The M4 Macro Processor                                     PSD:17

     M4  is a macro processor useful in its own right and as
     a front-end for C, Ratfor, and Cobol.


gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler                     PSD:18

     A program to show the call graph and execution time  of
     a program.  Indispensable aid for improving the running
     time of almost everything.


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Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization           PSD:19

     Describes  the  _c_u_r_s_e_s  package,  an  aid  for  writing
     screen-oriented, terminal-independent programs.


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An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial PSD:20

     How  to write programs that use the Interprocess Commu-
     nication Facilities of 4.4BSD.












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An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial     PSD:21

     The reference document (with  some  examples)  for  the
     Interprocess Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD.
























































