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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'', Pren-
     tice-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
     supplemented  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  documenta-
     tion;  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
     debugger  (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.












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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 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  expres-
     sions:  each regular expression can be followed by
     arbitrary C code to be executed upon  finding  the
     regular expression.


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 improv-
     ing 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 TutorPiSaDl:20










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     How  to  write  programs that use the Interprocess
     Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD.


An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication TutorialPSD:21

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



















































