Volume 2 \(em Supplementary Documents
This volume contains documents which supplement
the information contained in Volume 1 of
The documents here are grouped roughly into
Further general information may be found in
the Bell System Technical Journal
Many of the documents cited within this volume as
Bell Laboratories internal memoranda
or Computing Science Technical Reports
(CSTR) are also contained here.
These documents contain occasional localisms,
typically references to other operating systems
In all cases, such references may be safely ignored
7th Edition UNIX \(em Summary.
A concise summary of the facilities available on
The UNIX Time-Sharing System.
D. M. Ritchie and K. Thompson.
paper, reprinted from CACM.
UNIX for Beginners \(em Second Edition.
An introduction to the most basic use of the system.
A Tutorial Introduction to the UNIX Text Editor.
An easy way to get started with the editor.
Advanced Editing on UNIX.
An Introduction to the UNIX Shell.
An introduction to the capabilities of the command interpreter,
Learn \(em Computer Aided Instruction on UNIX.
M. E. Lesk and B. W. Kernighan.
Describes a computer-aided instruction program that walks new users
document preparation software.
Typing Documents on the UNIX System.
Describes the basic use of the formatting tools.
Also describes ``\-ms'', a standardized package of formatting requests
that can be used to lay out most documents
(including those in this volume).
A System for Typesetting Mathematics.
B. W. Kernighan and L. L. Cherry.
Describes EQN. an easy-to-learn language for doing high-quality mathematical typesetting,
TBL \(em A Program to Format Tables.
A program to permit easy specification of tabular material
Again, easy to learn and use.
Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System.
Describes, among other things, the program REFER
which fills in bibliographic citations from a data base
NROFF/TROFF User's Manual.
The basic formatting program.
An introduction to TROFF for those who
really want to know such things.
The C Programming Language \(em Reference Manual.
Official statement of the syntax and semantics of C.
Should be supplemented by
The C Programming Language,
B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchie,
which contains a tutorial introduction and many examples.
Lint, A C Program Checker.
for syntax errors, type violations,
and a variety of probable errors.
Make \(em A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs.
Indispensable tool for making sure that large programs
are properly compiled with minimal effort.
B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchie.
Describes the programming interface to the operating system
and the standard I/O library.
A Tutorial Introduction to ADB.
J. F. Maranzano and S. R. Bourne.
How to use the ADB debugger.
Supporting Tools and Languages
YACC: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler.
Converts a BNF specification of a language
and semantic actions written in C into a compiler for the language.
LEX \(em A Lexical Analyzer Generator.
M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt.
Creates a recognizer for a set of regular expressions;
each regular expression can be followed by arbitrary C code
which will be executed when the regular expression is found.
A Portable Fortran 77 Compiler.
S. I. Feldman and P. J. Weinberger.
The first Fortran 77 compiler, and still one of the best.
Ratfor \(em A Preprocessor for a Rational Fortran.
Converts a Fortran with C-like control structures and cosmetics
B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchie.
M4 is a macro processor useful as a front end for C, Ratfor,
Cobol, and in its own right.
SED \(em A Non-interactive Text Editor.
A variant of the editor for processing large
AWK \(em A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language.
A. V. Aho, B. W. Kernighan and
Makes it easy to specify many data transformation and selection operations.
DC \(em An Interactive Desk Calculator.
R. H. Morris and L. L. Cherry.
A super HP calculator, if you don't need floating point.
BC \(em An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language.
L. L. Cherry and R. H. Morris.
that provides infix notation, control flow, and built-in functions.
UNIX Assembler Reference Manual.
The ultimate dead language.
Implementation, Maintenance, and Miscellaneous
Setting Up UNIX \(em Seventh Edition.
C. B. Haley and D. M. Ritchie.
How to configure and get your system running.
Regenerating System Software.
C. B. Haley and D. M. Ritchie.
What do do when you have to change things.
How the system actually works inside.
How the I/O system really works.
A Tour Through the UNIX C Compiler.
How the PDP-11 compiler works inside.
A Tour Through the Portable C Compiler.
How the portable C compiler works inside.
A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems.
D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk.
Describes UUCP, a program for communicating files
UUCP Implementation Description.
How UUCP works, and how to administer it.
Hints on how to break UNIX, and how to avoid doing so.
Password Security: A Case History.
R. H. Morris and K. Thompson.
How the bad guys used to be able to
break the password algorithm,