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Started by Thomas Ferrin
Sat, 27 Sep 1986 16:14
announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Author: Thomas Ferrin
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1986 16:14
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1986 16:14
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BSD UNIX Manuals - The Next Chapter
As all members must surely know by now, the USENIX Association-
sponsored production of 4.2BSD UNIX manuals has been an overwhelming
success. There have now been four separate printings since April,
1984 (totaling over 15,000 copies of the five-volume manual set).
Membership response to the manuals has been very favorable, including
such aspects as the new document organization (thanks to Sam Leffler),
the 6"x9" production format, and the inexpensive pricing. With the
long-awaited release of 4.3BSD now official however, a new version of
the manuals is appropriate as well. This article describes the
changes that have been incorporated into the new 4.3BSD manuals, as
well as details like when they will be available and what they will
cost.
Nota Bene - Usenix's commitment to the 4.3BSD edition of manuals means
that there will be NO additional printing runs of 4.2BSD manuals.
Since there are very few 4.2BSD manuals remaining in our inventory
(with the exception of a few hundred UNIX Programmer's Manuals), if
you plan to order these older manuals it is imperative that you do so
immediately. When current inventories of 4.2 manuals are exhausted,
no additional orders for the 4.2BSD version will be accepted.
The 4.3BSD manual sets are significantly different from the 4.2BSD
edition; changes include many additional documents, better quality of
reproductions, as well as a new and extensive indexing system. As
with the 4.2 edition, 4.3BSD manuals are being sold only in sets.
Pricing and ordering details are given below.
Manual Descriptions
The basic composition of the three manual sets is outlined here, with
a detailed description of each volume's contents given later. All
manuals are printed in a photo-reduced 6"x9" format with individually
colored and labeled plastic ``GBC'' bindings. All documents and
manual pages have been freshly typeset in order to provide top quality
reproduction and all manuals have ``bleed tabs'' and page headers and
numbers to aid in the location of individual documents and manual sec-
tions.
User's Manual Set (3 volumes)
Volume 1, User's Reference Manual
Volume 2, User's Supplementary Documents
Volume 3, Master Index
Programmer's Manual Set (3 volumes)
Volume 1, Programmer's Reference Manual
Volume 2, Programmer's Supplementary Documents
Volume 3, Programmer's Supplementary Documents
System Manager's Manual (1 volume)
While some manual sets are three separate volumes, you may only order
complete sets; i.e. you cannot order a Volume 2 of the User's Manual
without also ordering Volumes 1 and 3.
Manual Contents
UNIX User's Reference Manual (URM)
The following sections from Volume 1 of the original UNIX
Programmer's Manuals (UPM): preface, introduction, table of contents,
permuted index, section 1 (commands), section 6 (games), and section 7
(miscellaneous).
UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)
This volume contains documents which supplement the manual pages
in The UNIX User's Reference Manual for the Virtual VAX-11 version of
the system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley, and Volumes 2a and 2b as
provided by Bell Laboratories:
Getting Started
UNIX for Beginners - Second Edition
Learn - Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (2nd Edition)
Basic Utilities
An Introduction to the UNIX Shell
An Introduction to the C shell
DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator
BC - An Arbitrary Precision Desk-Calculator Language
Communicating with the World
Mail Reference Manual
The Rand MH Message Handling System
How to Read the Network News
How to Use USENET Effectively
Notesfile Reference Manual
Text Editing
A Tutorial Introduction to the UNIX Text Editor
Advanced Editing on UNIX
Edit: A Tutorial
An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi
Ex Reference Manual (Version 3.7)
Jove Manual for UNIX Users
SED - A Non-interactive Text Editor
AWK - A Pattern Scanning and Processing Language (2nd Edition)
Document Preparation
Typing Documents on UNIX: Using the -ms Macros with
Troff and Nroff
A Revised Version of -ms
Writing Papers with nroff using -me
-me Reference Manual
NROFF/TROFF User's Manual
A TROFF Tutorial
A System for Typesetting Mathematics
Typesetting Mathematics - User's Guide (2nd Edition)
Tbl - A Program to Format Tables
Refer - A Bibliography System
Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System
BIB - A Program for Formatting Bibliographies
Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs
Amusements
A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom
Star Trek
Master Index
This volume contains an extensive index which cross-references
all documents and manual pages contained within all six volumes of
4.3BSD manuals. The index was prepared with the aid of an ``intelli-
gent'' automated indexing program from Thinking Machines Corp. along
with considerable human intervention from Mark Seiden. Key words,
phrases and concepts are referenced by abbreviated document name and
page number.
UNIX Programmer's Reference Manual (PRM)
The following sections from Volume 1 of the original UPM: sec-
tion 2 (system calls), section 3 (libraries), section 4 (devices),
section 5 (file formats).
UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 (PS1)
These two volumes contain documents which supplement the manual
pages in The UNIX Programmer's Reference Manual for the Virtual VAX-11
version of the system as distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
Languages in common use (other languages in Programmer's Supplement,
volume 2)
The C Programming Language - Reference Manual
A Portable Fortran 77 Compiler
Introduction to the f77 I/O Library
Berkeley Pascal User's Manual
Berkeley VAX/UNIX Assembler Reference Manual
General Reference
Berkeley Software Architecture Manual (4.3 Edition)
An Introductory 4.3BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial
An Advanced 4.3BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial
Programming Tools
Lint, A C Program Checker
A Tutorial Introduction to ADB
Debugging with dbx
Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs
An Introduction to the Revision Control System
An Introduction to the Source Code Control System
YACC: Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
LEX - A Lexical Analyzer Generator
The M4 Macro Processor
Programming Libraries
Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization
UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 (PS2)
Documents of Historical Interest
The UNIX Time-Sharing System
UNIX 32/V - Summary
UNIX Programming - Second Edition
UNIX Implementation
The UNIX I/O System
Other Languages
The Programming Language EFL
Berkeley FP User's Manual
Ratfor - A Preprocessor for a Rational FORTRAN
The FRANZ LISP Manual
Database Management
Ingres (Version 8) Reference Manual
UNIX System Manager's Manual (SMM)
This volume contains manual pages and supplementary documents
related to system operation, administration and maintenance and is
intended primarily for system administrators. The information in
these documents applies to the Virtual VAX-11 version of the system as
distributed by U.C. Berkeley.
Section 8 of the original UPM
System Installation and Administration
Installing and Operating 4.3BSD on the VAX
Building 4.3BSD UNIX Systems with Config
Using ADB to Debug the Kernel
Disc Quotas in a UNIX Environment
Fsck - The UNIX File System Check Program
Line Printer Spooler Manual
Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide
Timed Installation and Operation Guide
UUCP Implementation Description
USENET Version B Installation
Name Server Operations Guide
Supporting Documentation
Bug Fixes and Changes in 4.3BSD
Changes to the Kernel in 4.3BSD
A Fast File System for UNIX
4.3BSD Networking Implementation Notes
Sendmail - An Internetwork Mail Router
On the Security of UNIX
Password Security - A Case History
A Tour Through the Portable C Compiler
Writing NROFF Terminal Descriptions
A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems
The Berkeley UNIX Time Synchronization Protocol
Costs
Manual prices are shown below. This cost does not include shipping
and handling from New Jersey, which will depending on the quantity
ordered and distance shipped. Sites ordering manuals will be billed
for postage and handling by the publisher (Howard Press).
Manual Cost*
_______________________________________________
User's Manual (3 volumes) $25.00/set
Programmer's Manual (3 volumes) $25.00/set
System Manager's Manual (1 volume) $10.00/set
* Not including postage and handling or applicable taxes.
Ordering
Manuals will be available on or shortly after November 1st, 1986. To
order, you must return a completed ``4.3BSD Manual Reproduction
Authorization and Order Form'' to the Usenix office along with a check
or purchase order for the cost of the manuals. Order Forms are avail-
able in the Sept/Oct edition of ;login: (scheduled to be mailed to
members on September 24th-26th) or by calling the Usenix office at
(415) 528-8649. You must be a Usenix Association Institutional or
Supporting member to order manuals. Orders will be forwarded to the
publisher after license verification has been completed, and the manu-
als will be shipped to you directly from the publisher.
Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Author: John Gilmore
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1986 10:09
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1986 10:09
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tef@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Thomas Ferrin) writes:
> You must be a Usenix Association Institutional or
> Supporting member to order manuals.
I've been wondering what my individual membership in usenix is good for --
I can't get the tapes, I can't get the manuals, all I get is junkmail.
Is there no way for a 4.2BSD binary licensed (Sun) Unix site to get copies
of these manuals? (I'm sure I could ask a friend at a "real company"
to get them for me, but now that I'm paying Usenix for the privilege
of membership it would be nice to debug the user group a little bit.)
I could go to any bookstore and buy System V manuals but it would feel better
to just shoot myself instead.
--
John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
May the Source be with you!
Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Author: Steve Dyer
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1986 05:04
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1986 05:04
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I agree with John Gilmore here. What good is a USENIX individual
membership if all it gives you are N copies of every UNI-OPS mailing
and an issue of ;login which these days seems to be filled with notes
of long-past board of directors meetings and little else, when the
USEFUL material (i.e. things like 4.3BSD manuals) are restricted to
institutional and "supporting" members?
At the very least, some explanation is is order here. Is this a licensing issue
with AT&T or Berkeley? If so, its logic escapes me and it must be something
new, for I've been able to walk off the street and purchase the USENIX 4.2BSD
manuals at the Harvard Science Center, no questions asked. What's the
necessity of the middleman?
What are the constraints on the USENIX Association which would require
such a policy?
--
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.HARVARD.EDU
{linus,wanginst,bbnccv,harvard,ima,ihnp4}!spdcc!dyer
Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Author: Landon Curt Noll
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1986 21:09
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1986 21:09
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In article <412@spdcc.UUCP> dyer@spdcc.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes: >I agree with John Gilmore here. Me too! >At the very least, some explanation is is order here. Is this a licensing >issue with AT&T or Berkeley? If so, its logic escapes me and it must be >something new, for I've been able to walk off the street and purchase the >USENIX 4.2BSD manuals at the Harvard Science Center, no questions asked. >What's the necessity of the middleman? Heck, folks can just plunk down $'s at the CS library at Berkeley can obtain a set of manuals. Thats how I got my 4.2BSD set. Has something happened with 4.3BSD? Why can't Usenix provide a service for folks who can't get to Berkeley? (or even for folks who can?) chongo <> /\oo/\
Re: announcing the availability of 4.3B
Author: maeder
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 15:47
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1986 15:47
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/* ---------- "announcing the availability of 4.3B" ---------- */
BSD UNIX Manuals - The Next Chapter
/* End of text from symcom:net.usenix */
Can anyone who knows both Sun's manuals and These new 4.3BSD manuals
tell me whether there is anything in them that is not already in the
Sun documentation (OS 3.0)?
Please mail your response.
Roman Maeder
UIUC, Dept. of Mathematics
It is now pitch dark. If you proceed you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Author: Brent Chapman
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 01:17
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 01:17
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In article <3815@amdahl.UUCP> chongo@amdahl.UUCP (Landon Curt Noll) writes: > >Heck, folks can just plunk down $'s at the CS library at Berkeley can obtain >a set of manuals. Thats how I got my 4.2BSD set. Has something happened >with 4.3BSD? Why can't Usenix provide a service for folks who can't get >to Berkeley? (or even for folks who can?) Several (possible) problems with that now: A) The "CS Library" you refer to, where you used to be able to get manual sets and lotsa other goodies (that's where I got mine), has closed. The "lotsa other goodies" have been divided up among several sources, now, including other campus libraries, the campus bookstore, and a local copy shop. It is unclear what will happen about UNIX manuals. I hope they'll end up at the campus bookstore, but I'm not counting on it. B) The materials, if available, may be restricted to purcchase by staff/students only. I don't think this is likely, though. C) When I got my 4.2 set from the CS Library, I couldn't get the system administrator's manual. I don't know if there is (was) a policy restricting such sales to students, or if they were simply out of the manuals. Brent -- Brent Chapman chapman@cory.berkeley.edu or ucbvax!cory!chapman
Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Author: Mike Meyer
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 11:12
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1986 11:12
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Brent, if you're talking about the CC library, then I can provide answers. In article <419@zen.BERKELEY.EDU> chapman@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Brent Chapman) writes: >B) The materials, if available, may be restricted to purcchase by > staff/students only. I don't think this is likely, though. Nope. The CC library will sell to anyone with cash or a CC accounting number (yes, Brent, you could charge manuals to your violet account :-). >C) When I got my 4.2 set from the CS Library, I couldn't get the system > administrator's manual. I don't know if there is (was) a > policy restricting such sales to students, or if they were > simply out of the manuals. The library made a stupid mistake. They didn't think that many people would want them (which is probably correct - anywhere but at a large university) and ordered hundred+ of the basic four, and 22 (count'em, twenty two) of the administrators manuals. The CC staff immediately got those. <mike
Re: announcing the availability of 4.3BSD Usenix manuals
Author: Mark Horton
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 03:57
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 03:57
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I thought AT&T put the V7 UNIX manual into the public domain. Since the 4.3BSD manual is derived from 32V->3BSD->4.0BSD->4.1BSD ->4.2BSD->4.3BSD, and since 32V was V7 for the VAX, I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's not like there's System III or System V stuff in the 4.3BSD manual. Is it a legal technicality that the V7 and 32V distributions, while nearly identical, are legally separate? If that's the case, perhaps the problem could be solved by some kind soul out there who has both the V7 and 32V tapes. This person could diff the two on-line manuals and apply the diffs to the 4.3 online manuals, turning a 32V derived manual into a V7 derived manual. (This makes technical sense; I wonder if it makes legal sense?) Mark
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