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UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)4.4 Berkeley Software Distribution (June, 1993) |
This volume contains documents which supplement the manual pages in The Unix User's Reference Manual for the 4.4BSD Lite2 system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
Getting Started
- USD:1 - Unix for Beginners - Second Edition
- An introduction to the most basic uses of the system.
- USD:2 - Learn - Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (Second Edition)
- Describes a computer-aided instruction program that walks new users through the basics of files, the editor, and document preparation software.
Basic Utilities
- USD:3 - An Introduction to the UNIX Shell
- Steve Bourne's introduction to the capabilities of sh, a command interpreter especially popular for writing shell scripts.
- USD:4 - An Introduction to the C shell
- This introduction to csh, (a command interpreter popular for interactive work) describes many commonly used UNIX commands, assumes little prior knowledge of UNIX, and has a glossary useful for beginners.
- USD:5 - DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator
- A super HP calculator, if you do not need floating point.
- USD:6 - BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language
- A front end for DC that provides infix notation, control flow, and built-in functions.
Communicating with the World
- USD:7 - Mail Reference Manual
- Complete details on one of the programs for sending and reading your mail.
- USD:8 - The Rand MH Message Handling System
- This system for managing your computer mail uses lots of small programs, instead of one large one.
Text Editing
- USD:9 - A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor
- An easy way to get started with the line editor, ed.
- USD:10 - Advanced Editing on Unix
- The next step.
- USD:11 - An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi
- The document to learn to use the vi screen editor.
- USD:12 - Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7)
- The final reference for the ex editor.
- USD:13 - Vi Reference Manual
- The definitive reference for the nvi editor.
- USD:14 - Jove Manual for UNIX Users
- Jove is a small, self-documenting, customizable display editor, based on EMACS. A plausible alternative to vi.
- USD:15 - SED - A Non-interactive Text Editor
- Describes a one-pass variant of ed useful as a filter for processing large files.
- USD:16 - AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (Second Edition)
- A program for data selection and transformation.
Document Preparation
- USD:17 - Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the -ms Macros with Troff and Nroff
- Describes and gives examples of the basic use of the typesetting tools and ``-ms'', a frequently used package of formatting requests that make it easier to lay out most documents.
- USD:18 - A Revised Version of -ms
- A brief description of the Berkeley revisions made to the -ms formatting macros for nroff and troff.
- USD:19 - Writing Papers with nroff using -me
- Another popular macro package for nroff.
- USD:20 - -me Reference Manual
- The final word on -me.
- USD:21 - NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
- Extremely detailed information about these document formatting programs.
- USD:22 - A TROFF Tutorial
- An introduction to the most basic uses of troff for those who really want to know such things, or want to write their own macros.
- USD:23 - A System for Typesetting Mathematics
- Describes eqn, an easy-to-learn language for high-quality mathematical typesetting.
- USD:24 - Typesetting Mathematics - User's Guide (Second Edition)
- More details about how to use eqn.
- USD:25 - Tbl - A Program to Format Tables
- A program for easily typesetting tabular material.
- USD:26 - Refer - A Bibliography System
- An introduction to one set of tools used to main- tain bibliographic databases. The major program, refer, is used to automatically retrieve and for- mat the references based on document citations.
- USD:27 - Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System
- Mike Lesk's paper describes the refer programs in a somewhat larger context.
- USD:28 - BIB - A Program for Formatting Bibliographies
- This is an alternative to refer for expanding citations in documents.
- USD:29 - Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs
- These are programs which can help you understand and improve your writing style.
Amusements
- USD:30 - A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom
- An introduction to the popular game of rogue, a fantasy game which is one of the biggest known users of VAX cycles.
- USD:31 - Star Trek
- You are the Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Wipe out the Klingons and save the Federation.
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