UNIX & Programming Section

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, X11, Motif, C and UNIX shell programming.

* 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!

* ONLINE UNIX man pages
These are the UNIX online manuals (man pages) in a semi-html format. The html documents are created on the fly by a shell/sed/awk cgi-script.

* X11 Using & Programming Tutorial
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.

* JDK 1.2.2 documentation

* JDK 1.1.6 documentation

* Perl Manual
This is the html version of PERL Manual originally written by Larry Wall (lwall@netlabs.com) and rewritten to Texinfo by Jeff Kellem (composer@Beyond.Dreams.ORG).

The html version was created from the texinfo version using the texi2html utility.

* Perl Reference
The Perl Reference in postscript format covering Perl v4.036 and Perl v5.000. Available though the Anonymous FTP server at :

* UNIX Tools Documentation
Here are several documents in postscript and text format for popular UNIX tools:
* Unix Shell (sh): postscript, text
* C Shell (csh): postscript, text
* Stream Editor (sed): postscript, text
* Awk : postscript, text
* Make : postscript, text
* Vi : postscript, text

* 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.

* 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 (New Version)
(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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