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- UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)
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- 4.3 Berkeley Software Distribution, Virtual VAX-11
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- February, 1986
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- This volume contains documents which supplement the
- manual pages in The Unix User's Reference Manual for the
- Virtual VAX-11 version of the system as distributed by U.C.
- Berkeley, and Volumes 2a and 2b as provided by Bell Labora-
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- Getting Started
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- Unix for Beginners - Second Edition USD:1
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- An introduction to the most basic uses of the sys-
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- Learn - Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (Second EditUSD:2
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- Describes a computer-aided instruction program
- that walks new users through the basics of files,
- the editor, and document prepararation software.
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- Basic Utilities
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- An Introduction to the UNIX Shell USD:3
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- Steve Bourne's introduction to the capabilities of
- sh, a command interpreter especially popular for
- writing shell scripts.
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- An Introduction to the C shell USD:4
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- This introduction to csh, (a command interpreter
- popular for interactive work) describes many com-
- monly used UNIX commands, assumes little prior
- knowledge of UNIX, and has a glossary useful for
- beginners.
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- DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator USD:5
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- A super HP calculator, if you do not need floating
- point.
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- BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language USD:6
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- A front end for DC that provides infix notation,
- control flow, and built-in functions.
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- Communicating with the World
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- Mail Reference Manual USD:7
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- Complete details on one of the programs for send-
- ing and reading your mail.
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- The Rand MH Message Handling System USD:8
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- This system for managing your computer mail uses
- lots of small programs, instead of one large one.
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- How to Read the Network News USD:9
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- Describes how news works (generally) and some
- alternatives for reading it, readnews and vnews.
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- How to Use USENET Effectively USD:10
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- Describes the customs, protocols, and etiquette of
- network news, plus answers to the questions most
- frequently asked by newcomers to the network.
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- Notesfile Reference Manual USD:11
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- This feature-packed system for maintaining com-
- puter-aided discussion groups is also useful for
- reading netnews.
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- Text Editing
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- A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor USD:12
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- An easy way to get started with the line editor,
- ed.
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- Advanced Editing on Unix USD:13
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- The next step.
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- Edit: A Tutorial USD:14
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- An introduction to edit, a line-oriented editor
- which is a version of ex, assuming no previous
- knowledge of UNIX or text editing.
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- An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi USD:15
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- The document to learn to use the vi screen editor.
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- Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7) USD:16
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- The final reference for the ex editor, which
- underlies both edit and vi.
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- Jove Manual for UNIX Users USD:17
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- Jove is a small, self-documenting, customizable
- display editor, based on EMACS. A plausible
- alternative to vi.
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- SED - A Non-interactive Text Editor USD:18
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- Describes a one-pass variant of ed useful as a
- filter for processing large files.
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- AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (SecoUSD:19tion)
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- A program for data selection and transformation.
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- Document Preparation
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- Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the -ms Macros with TrUSD:20d Nroff
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- 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.
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- A Revised Version of -ms USD:21
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- A brief description of the Berkeley revisions made
- to the -ms formatting macros for nroff and troff.
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- Writing Papers with nroff using -me USD:22
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- Another popular macro package for nroff.
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- -me Reference Manual USD:23
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- The final word on -me.
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- NROFF/TROFF User's Manual USD:24
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- Extremely detailed information about these docu-
- ment formatting programs.
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- A TROFF Tutorial USD:25
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- 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.
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- A System for Typesetting Mathematics USD:26
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- Describes eqn, an easy-to-learn language for high-
- quality mathematical typesetting.
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- Typesetting Mathematics - User's Guide (Second EditionUSD:27
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- More details about how to use eqn.
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- Tbl - A Program to Format Tables USD:28
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- A program for easily typesetting tabular material.
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- Refer - A Bibliography System USD:29
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- 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.
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- Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX SystUSD:30
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- Mike Lesk's paper describes the refer programs in
- a somewhat larger context.
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- BIB - A Program for Formatting Bibliographies USD:31
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- This is an alternative to refer for expanding
- citations in documents.
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- Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs USD:32
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- These are programs which can help you understand
- and improve your writing style.
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- Amusements
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- A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom USD:33
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- An introduction to the popular game of rogue, a
- fantasy game which is one of the biggest known
- users of VAX cycles.
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- Star Trek USD:34
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- You are the Captain of the Starship Enterprise.
- Wipe out the Klingons and save the Federation.
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