Unix & Programming Documentation

This section contains a collection of documents and guides in various formats, such as html, postscript and text. It covers the areas of UNIX, Perl, Ruby, PHP, X11, Motif, C and UNIX shell programming.

• JAVA JDK Manual
  The revolutionary language from SUN

  jdk1.1.6

  jdk1.3  [API]

  JSP 1.1 & Servlet 2.2 specification

  Tomcat 3.2

• JAVA Tutorial
  From SUN's site, with examples [17-Jun-2000]

  Java Tutorial

• Perl 5 Manual
  This is the full html version of the PERL Manual.

• PHP 4 Manual
  This is the html version of the PHP Manual.

• The RUBY Language

  RUBY 1.4 Refrence

  Programming Ruby The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide

• PostgreSQL Documentation

  English FAQ

  All the Documentation [23-Jul-00]

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• GNU Manuals
  converted with texi2html

  flex

  bison

  gnuplot

  gawk

  groff

  m4

  make

  textutils

  readline

• UNIX Tools Documentation
  Here are several documents in postscriptandtextformat for popular UNIX tools:

  Unix Shell (sh): postscript,text

  C Shell (csh): postscript,text

  Stream Editor (sed): postscript, Sed FAQ

  Awk : postscript, text

  Make : postscript,text

  Vi : postscript,text

  Troff : postscript

  Tbl : postscript

• The Grymoire
  Covers Shell, Regexp, AWK, Csh, SED et.c. Very good sed examples.
  The original can be found at http://www.grymoire.com

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• UNIX Help for users
  Are you a beginner in UNIX? Do you have any questions about the operating system that rules the world? Follow this link to find the answers!

• Introduction to UNIX
  From Ohio State University, 1996

• UNIX shell differences and how to change your shell
  by Brian Blackmore, bnb@gryphon.demon.co.uk

• BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer
  by Jim Frost <jimf@saber.com>.

• The unix sockets FAQ
  All the questions about unix sockets, replied by Vic Metcalfe.

• X11 Using & Programming Tutorial (in Greek)
  This a hypertext tutorial for X Window System Users & Programmers.
  Note: It is written in Greek, therefore you will need greek fonts to read it.

• Programming in C++, Rules and Recommendations
  by Eric Nyquist & Mats Henricson, Ellemtel Telecommunication Systems Laboratories. This is the first official release of our C++ programming rules written in english. Comments/suggestions on the document should hereafter be sent to <mats.henricson@eua.ericsson.se>.

• Recommended C Style and Coding Standards
  by L.W.Cannon,R.A.Elliott,L.W.Kirchhoff,J.H.Miller,J.M.Milner,R.W.Mitze, E.P.Whittington,Henry Spencer,David Keppel,Mark Brader. Quoting from the Abstract:

  
  ``This document is an updated version of the Indian Hill C Style and Coding Standards paper
  with modications by the last three authors. It describes a recommended coding standard for C
  programs. The scope is coding style, not functional organization.'' February 14, 1995.

• Notes on Writing Portable Programs in C
  (Nov 1990, 8th Revision) by A.Dolenc <ado@sauna.hut.fi>, A.Lemmke, D.Keppel <pardo@cs.washington.edu> and G.V.Reilly <gvr@cs.brown.edu>. Quoting from the Abstract:

  
  "This documents describe the features and non-features of different C preprocessors, compilers,
  and environments. As such, it is an incomplete document, growing as information is gathered. It
  contains some material concerning ANSI C but it is not a substitute for the Standard itself. We
  assume the reader is familiar with the C programming language."

  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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