4.4BSD Documents

This is just a snapshot. The troff documents are converted to HTML with unroff, a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator with a back-end for the Hypertext Markup Language. The -me documents does not looks good formatted.

Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>, Mar 1997.

Papers

Contents of Paper (Postscript, ASCII)
Berkeley Pascal (Postscript, ASCII): Berkeley Pascal PX Implementation Notes Version 2.0 Performance Effects of Disk Subsystem Choices for VAX** Systems Running 4.2BSD UNIX. William N. Joy, M. Kirk McKusick. Revised January, 1979.
Disk Performance (Postscript, ASCII): Performance Effects of Disk Subsystem Choices for VAX** Systems Running 4.2BSD UNIX. Bob Kridle, Marshall Kirk McKusick. Revised July 27, 1983.
Tune the 4.2BSD Kernel (Postscript, ASCII): Using gprof to Tune the 4.2BSD Kernel. Marshall Kirk McKusick. Revised May 21, 1984 (?).
New Virtual Memory (Postscript, ASCII): A New Virtual Memory Implementation for Berkeley. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels. Revised 1986.
Kernel Malloc (Postscript, ASCII): Design of a General Purpose Memory Allocator for the 4.3BSD UNIX Kernel. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels. Reprinted from: Proceedings of the San Francisco USENIX Conference, pp. 295-303, June 1988.
Release Engineering (Postscript, ASCII): The Release Engineering of 4.3BSD. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, Keith Bostic. Revised 1989.
Beyond 4.3BSD (Postscript, ASCII): Current Research by The Computer Systems Research Group of Berkeley. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels, Keith Sklower, Kevin Fall, Marc Teitelbaum, Keith Bostic. Revised February 2, 1989.
Memory Based Filesystem (Postscript, ASCII): A Pageable Memory Based Filesystem. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, Keith Bostic. Revised 1990.
Filesystem Interface (Postscript, ASCII): Toward a Compatible Filesystem Interface. Michael J. Karels, Marshall Kirk McKusick. Conference of the European Users' Group, September 1986. Last modified April 16, 1991.
System Performance (Postscript, ASCII): Measuring and Improving the Performance of Berkeley UNIX. Marshall Kirk McKusick, Samuel J. Leffler, Michael J. Karels. Revised April 17, 1991.
Not Quite NFS (Postscript, ASCII): Not Quite NFS, Soft Cache Consistency for NFS. Rick Macklem. Reprinted with permission from the "Proceedings of the Winter 1994 Usenix Conference", January 1994, San Francisco.
Malloc(3) malloc (Postscript, ASCII): Malloc(3) in modern Virtual Memory environments. Poul-Henning Kamp. Revised April 5, 1996.

UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents (PSD)

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Documents of Historical Interest

Berkeley Software Architecture Manual (4.4 Edition) (Postscript, ASCII): 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

Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs (Postscript, ASCII): Indispensable tool for making sure large programs are properly compiled with minimal effort.
An Introduction to the Revision Control System (Postscript, ASCII)
Functions of RCS (Postscript, ASCII): RCS is a user-contributed tool for working together with other people without stepping on each other's toes. An alternative to sccs for controlling software changes.
gprof - a Call Graph Execution Profiler (Postscript, ASCII): 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 (Postscript, ASCII): Describes the curses package, an aid for writing screen-oriented, terminal-independent programs.

General Reference

An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial (Postscript, ASCII): How to write programs that use the Interprocess Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD.
An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial (Postscript, ASCII): The reference document (with some examples) for the Interprocess Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD.
RPCGEN Programming Guide (Postscript, ASCII): Manual for the ONC RPC stub-generating program, provided by Sun Microsystems.
Remote Procedure Call Programming Guide (Postscript, ASCII): A tutorial introduction to programming the ONC RPC system, provided by Sun Microsystems.
External Data Representation: Sun Technical Notes (Postscript, ASCII): Technical details about the design of the XDR component of ONC RPC, provided by Sun Microsystems.
External Data Representation Standard: Protocol Specification (Postscript, ASCII): The Internet RFC specifying ONC XDR, provided by Sun Microsystems.
Remote Procedure Calls: Protocol Specification (Postscript, ASCII): The Internet RFC specifying ONC RPC, RFC 1050, as provided by Sun Microsystems.
Network File System: Version 2 Protocol Specification (Postscript, ASCII): The Internet RFC specifying NFS, as provided by Sun Microsystems. Note that the NFS-compatible filesystem itself, while compliant with this specification, was not provided by Sun.
CVS II: Parallelizing Software Development (Postscript, ASCII): CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a front end to the RCS revision control system which extends the notion of revision control from a col- lection of files in a single directory to a hier- archical collection of directories each contain- ing revision controlled files.

UNIX System Manager's Manual (SMM)

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Installing and Operating 4.4BSD (Postscript, ASCII): The definitive reference document for those occasions when you find you need to start over again.
Building 4.4BSD Kernels with Config (Postscript, ASCII): In-depth discussions of the use and operation of the config program, and how to build your very own Unix kernel.
Fsck - The UNIX File System Check Program (Postscript, ASCII): A reference document for using the fsck program during times of file system distress.
Disc Quotas in a UNIX Environment (Postscript, ASCII): A light introduction to the techniques for limit- ing the use of disc resources.
A Fast File System for UNIX (Postscript, ASCII): A description of the 4.4BSD file system organization, design and implementation.
The 4.4BSD NFS Implementation (Postscript, ASCII): An overview of the design, implementation, and use of NFS on 4.4BSD.
Line Printer Spooler Manual (Postscript, ASCII): This document describes the structure and installation procedure for the line printer spooling system.
Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide (Postscript, ASCII): The last word in installing and operating the sendmail program.
Sendmail - An Internetwork Mail Router (Postscript, ASCII): An overview document on the design and implementation of sendmail.
Timed Installation and Operation Guide (Postscript, ASCII): Describes how to maintain time synchronization between machines in a local network.
The Berkeley UNIX Time Synchronization Protocol (Postscript, ASCII): The protocols and algorithms used by timed, the network time synchronization daemon.
Networking Implementation Notes, 4.4BSD Edition (Postscript, ASCII): A concise description of the system interfaces used within the networking subsystem.

UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)

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Basic Utilities

An Introduction to the C shell (Postscript, ASCII): 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.

Communicating with the World

Mail Reference Manual (Postscript, ASCII): Complete details on one of the programs for sending and reading your mail.

Text Editing

Advanced Editing on Unix (Postscript, ASCII): The next step.
An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi (Postscript, ASCII): The document to learn to use the vi screen editor.
Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7) (Postscript, ASCII): The final reference for the ex editor.

Document Preparation

A Revised Version of -ms (Postscript, ASCII): A brief description of the Berkeley revisions made to the -ms formatting macros for nroff and troff.
Writing Papers with nroff using -me (Postscript, ASCII): Another popular macro package for nroff.
-me Reference Manual (Postscript, ASCII): The final word on -me.

Amusements

A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom (Postscript, ASCII): An introduction to the popular game of rogue, a fantasy game which is one of the biggest known users of VAX cycles.
Star Trek (Postscript, ASCII): You are the Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Wipe out the Klingons and save the Federation.

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