UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents (PSD)
4.4 Berkeley Software Distribution
June, 1993
This volume contains documents which supplement the
manual pages in The UNIX- Programmer's Reference Manual for
the 4.4BSD system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
Documents of Historical Interest
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 Program-
mer Reference Manual section 2 (system calls) and
3 (library routines).
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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.
Languages in common use
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.
Programming Tools
Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger PSD:10
How to debug programs using the source level gdb
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 adb debugger.
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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 toes. An alternative to sccs for con-
trolling 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 improving
the running time of almost everything.
Programming Libraries
Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization PSD:19
Describes the curses package, an aid for writing
screen-oriented, terminal-independent programs.
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General Reference
An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess CommunicationPSD:20ial
How to write programs that use the Interprocess
Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD.
An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication TutPSD:21
The reference document (with some examples) for
the Interprocess Communication Facilities of
4.4BSD.
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