Programmers Suplementary Documents

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The descriptions are BSD's, not mine (appart from the ones in brakets).

• 12.make.txt - Make: A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs. Indispensable tool for making sure large programs are properly compiled with minimal effort (154K).
• 18.gprof.txt - gprof: a Call Graph Execution Profiler. A program to show the call graph and execution time of a program. Indispensable aid for improving the running time of almost everything (40K).
• 19.curses.txt - Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization. Describes the curses package, an aid for writing screen-oriented, terminal-independent programs (57K).
• 20.ipctut.txt - An Introductory 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial. How to write programs that use the Interprocess Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD (they mean sockets) (90K).
• 21.ipc.txt - An Advanced 4.4BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial. The reference document (with some examples) for the Interprocess Communication Facilities of 4.4BSD. (they mean sockets) (141K).
• 22.rpcgen.txt - RPCGEN Programming Guide. Manual for the ONC RPC stub-generating program, provided by Sun Microsystems (53K).
• 23.rpc.txt - Remote Procedure Call Programming Guide. A tutorial introduction to programming the ONC RPC system, provided by Sun Microsystems (119K).
• 24.xdr.txt - External Data Representation: Sun Technical Notes. Technical details about the design of the XDR component of ONC RPC, provided by Sun Microsystems (73K).
• 25.xdrrfc.txt - External Data Representation Standard: Protocol Specification. The Internet RFC specifying ONC XDR, provided by Sun Microsystems (duplicated in the rfc section of the unix/net/hack page) (48K).
• 26.rpcrfc.txt - Remote Procedure Calls: Protocol Specification. The Internet RFC specifying ONC RPC, RFC 1050, as provided by Sun Microsystems. (duplicated in the rfc section of the unix/net/hack page) (66K).
• 27.nfsrfc.txt - Network File System: Version 2 Protocol Specification. The Internet RFC specifying NFS, as provided by Sun Microsystems. Note that the (BSD?) NFS-compatible filesystem itself, while compliant with this specification, was not provided by Sun. (duplicated in the rfc section of the unix/net/hack page) (50K).
• contents.txt - (contents file where the above descriptions were taken from, also contains descriptions of some other interesting sounding PSDs that I don't have) (7K).
• title.txt - (copyright messages etc) (6K).