Bibliography

This section lists commercial books and articles that provide details on specific issues of interest to users of the REAL/IX system. This list is provided for reference only; it is not comprehensive and MODCOMP does not guarantee the accuracy of any of the items listed.

 

MODCOMP Publications

Furht, Borko, John Parker, Dan Grostick, Hagai Ohel, Tom Kapish, Ted Zuccarelli, Orlando Perdomo, "Performance of REAL/IX - Preemptive Real Time UNIX." Operating Systems Review, October 1989 (23:4).

Grostick, Dan, "How Determinism Can Be Achieved with UNIX." Computer Technology Review, November 1989, p. 14.

Rabbat, Guy, Borko Furht, and Ronald Kibler, "Three-Dimensional Computer Performance." Computer, vol. 21, July 1988, pp. 59-60. Discusses the theory of three-dimensional performance measurements for realtime systems.

 

Industry Standards Publications

American National Standards Institute, Inc. (ANSI), American National Standard for Information Systems - Programming Language C, ANSI Std. X3.159-1989. Specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs expressed in the programming language C.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), IEEE Standard Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments (POSIX), IEEE Std. 1003.1-1988. Defines the standard operating system interface and environment to support application portability at the source code level.

 

Commands and Utilities

Darwin, Ian F., Checking C Programs with lint. (Nutshell Handbooks: 1988). Provides a description of the lint utility and examples of linted code. Describes approaches to dealing with the information provided by executing the lint utility.

Sage, Russell G., The Waite Group, Tricks of the UNIX Masters. (Howard W. Sams). Discusses the UNIX environment, file and task management, devices and file systems, communications, security.

Todino, Grace and John Strang, Learning the UNIX Operating System. (Nutshell Handbooks: 1987). Gives basic information on using the basic system.

UNIX in a Nutshell (for System V). (Nutshell Handbooks: 1987). Introduces UNIX system commands, shell and pattern-matching syntax, editors, text formatter commands, make, and sccs.

The "New to UNIX" column in UNIX World offers discussions on basic topics required to fully utilize the system's capabilities.

 

Working in the Shell

Bolsky, Morris I. and David G. Korn, The Kornshell Command and Programming Language. (Prentice-Hall: 1988). Describes and gives instructions for using the Korn shell (/bin/ksh).

Hansen, Augie, "An Introduction to Regular Expressions." UNIX World, March 1989, pp. 127-133. Regular expressions are string specifiers used with the UNIX system shells and editors as well as utilities such as awk and the grep family. This article discusses ways of using ambiguous expressions to find text in files.

Hansen, Augie, "Using Text Patterns." UNIX World, April 1989, pp. 119-125. Discusses advanced ways of using regular expressions with the vi editor.

Hansen, Augie, "Lost and Found." UNIX World, August 1989, pp. 127-133. Discusses commands that can help you find a file if you have forgotten its name or directory location.

Levitt, Jason, "The Korn Shell: an Emerging Standard." UNIX World, September 1986, pp. 74-81. Describes the Korn Shell which combines the functionality of the Bourne Shell programming language and the C Shell user interaction mechanisms.

Sage, Russ, "The Art of UNIX Tooling." UNIX World, December 1987, pp. 91-99. Using shell scripts to combine regular system commands, add capabilities to utilities and create tools.

 

Editors and Text Formatters

AT&T, UNIX System V Documentor's Workbench Reference Manual. (Prentice-Hall: 1989). Provides reference information and tutorials for the nroff and troff macro packages and preprocessors.

AT&T, UNIX System V Documentor's Workbench User's Guide. (Prentice-Hall: 1989). Provides technical discussions and command summaries, in manual page format, for the nroff and troff macro packages and preprocessors.

Barron, David and Mike Rees, Text Processing and Typesetting with UNIX. (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.: 1987). Introduces the UNIX text formatting utilities nroff and troff, and the macro packages -mm and -ms and the related preprocessors.

Dougherty, Dale and Tim O'Reilly, UNIX Text Processing. (Howard Sams: 1987). Introduces the UNIX system facilities for text processing and how to use general tools such as sed, awk, and make to manage book composition and production.

Gehani, Narain, Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System. (Silicon Press: 1984). Gives detailed instructions and reference materials on using the troff text formatter with mm macros and related commands such as the table and picture preprocessors and tools for checking the text and macros.

Hansen, Augie, "Get Raw with Batch Editing." UNIX World, April 1990, pp. 137-142. Explains how to use ed and sed to edit files in shell scripts.

Lamb, Linda, Learning the vi Editor. (Nutshell Handbooks: 1987). A guide to using the vi screen editor, including basic information for novices and a discussion of the advanced features that are available.

Roddy, Kevin P., UNIX NROFF/TROFF: A USER'S GUIDE. (CBS College Publishing: 1987). Combines tutorial and reference manual material for the UNIX text formatting utilities nroff and troff, and the macro packages -me and -ms.

Vaughan, Elizabeth. "SED: Streamlining Your Editing." UNIX World, April 1987, pp. 77-83.

Zintz, Walter, "vi Tips for Power Users." UNIX World, April 1990, pp. 109-114. Discusses how to use the abbreviation tools in vi to execute a complex command sequence with one command.

 

Electronic Mail and Communication Utilities

Hansen, Augie, "Understanding E-Mail." UNIX World, January 1990, pp. 155-161. Gives basic instructions for using the standard electronic mail facilities.

Todino, Grace and Dale Dougherty, Using uucp and Usenet. (Nutshell Handbooks: 1987). Shows how to communicate with UNIX and other systems using uucp, cu, and tip, how to find out the status of a file transfer request, and how to read and post articles to the Usenet (Netnews).

 

Programming Topics

Bent, Wilson H. Jr., "Compiling Stubborn Programs." UNIX World, November 1987, pp. 113-122. Describes ways to convince, coerce, or deceive stubborn software for the purpose of compiling.

Bentley, Jon Louis, Writing Efficient Programs. (Prentice-Hall: 1982). This book discusses a number of programming practices that improve the efficiency of programs. While based on Pascal, the concepts are applicable to all high-level programming languages.

Kernighan, Brian W. and Rob Pike, The UNIX Programming Environment. (Prentice-Hall: 1984). Introduces the fundamental elements of the traditional UNIX programming environment, including the file system, the shell and shell programming, filters, using standard I/O, and system calls. It also includes chapters on program development and document preparation.

Knuth, Donald E., The Art of Computer Programming. Vol. 1, Fundamental Algorithms. (Addison-Wesley: 1975). Introduces the fundamental concepts and information structures of algorithms applicable to computer programming. Analyzes algorithms used for linking and allocating processes, lists, and trees.

Lapin, J.E., Portable C and UNIX System Programming. (Prentice-Hall: 1987). This book gives a history of the UNIX operating system and summarizes the major differences between the different versions, discusses the general issues involved in portability, and gives specific suggestions for writing portable C code.

Swartz, Ray, "Creating Database Tools." , July 1988, pp. 131-134. Discusses how to create data bases that can be easily accessed by standard system tools.

Swartz, Ray, "Reading and Writing Fixed-Length Records." UNIX World, August 1988, pp. 121-127. Discusses how to create files that use fixed-length records, required for many data files, within the context of the free-form files used on UNIX operating systems.

In addition, the "Wizard's Grabbag" column in UNIX World offers interesting discussions on a variety of programming topics.

 

Project Management

Arthur, Jay, "Programmer Productivity and the UNIX System." UNIX World, July 1986, pp. 26-33. Describes how to increase programmer productivity using the UNIX tools.

Harter, Richard, "Version Management and Change Control." UNIX World, June 1989, pp. 95-102. Discusses the underlying concepts of change control systems such as SCCS.

Talbott, Steve, "Managing Projects With make." UNIX World, September 1987, pp. 79-87. Describes how to maintain and update files using the make command.

 

curses

Rochkind, Marc J., Advanced C Programming for Displays. (Prentice-Hall: 1988). Presents step-by-step analyses of characters and their attributes, the physical screen and keyboard, windows, and virtual screens and keyboards, plus samples of code that uses curses to generate formatted screens.

Strang, John, Programming with Curses. (Nutshell Handbooks: 1986). Gives basic information on using the curses library.

Wood, Patrick, "Programming with curses." UNIX World, March 1989, pp. 97-110; April 1989, pp. 91-101. Discusses the curses library for creating screen-oriented programs and gives examples of programs that use it. Part I discusses basic input and output functions; Part II introduces windows and pads.

 

awk

Aho, Alfred V, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger, The AWK Programming Language. (Prentice-Hall: 1988). Written by the developers of the awk language, this book describes the functionality and gives guidelines for using this versatile tool.Dougherty, Dale, "AWK: A Not So Awkward Tool." UNIX World, May 1987, pp. 83-89; June 1987, pp. 81-89; July 1987, pp. 83-88. A three-part series that describes the awk command for processing lists and tables, developing applications, and acronym list manipulation.

 

Using the Internet Protocol Software

Romkey, John, "Networking with BSD-Style Sockets." UNIX World, July 1989: pp. 95-108; August 1989: pp. 97-108. Part I gives an overview of the TCP/IP network facilities and sockets; Part II gives an example of a TCP/IP application that uses sockets.

Comer, Douglas, Internetworking with TCP/IP - Principles, Protocols, and Architecture. (Prentice-Hall: 1988), pp. 263-289.

 

REAL/VU Programming

Nye, Adrian, "The X Window System Protocol." UNIX World, September 1989, pp. 105-113. Describes the protocol used by the REAL/VU X software.

Wood, Patrick, "Introduction to Xlib Programming," UNIX World, October 1989: pp. 119-129; November 1989:. Examines the low-level C language programming interface to the REAL/VU X product with many examples of programs that use Xlib.

Young, Doug, "Programming with the X Toolkit." UNIX World, January 1990: pp. 123-136; Explains the capabilities of the X Toolkit that is included in the REAL/VU X product.

 

Kernel Level Programming

Bach, Maurice J. and Steven J. Buroff, "Multiprocessor UNIX Operating Systems," AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, 63, No. 8 (October 1984), pp. 151-167. This is the paper in which Bach and Buroff introduce a kernel semaphore mechanism used to make a multiprocessor version of AT&T's UNIX System V.

Bach, Maurice J., The Design of the UNIX Operating System. (Prentice-Hall, 1986). A technical discussion of the internals of the UNIX System V operating system.

Dijkstra, E. W., "Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Programming Control," CACM, 8, No.9 (September 1965), pp. 569-578.

Dijkstra, E. W., "Cooperating Sequential Processes,"Programming Languages, F. Genuys, ed. (New York: Academic Press: 1968) pp. 43-112.

Pajari, George, "Writing UNIX Device Drivers." UNIX World, January 1988 pp. 91-101; February 1988, pp. 99-105; March 1988, pp. 89-95. A three-part article describing: a RAMdisk driver, an interrupt-driven terminal device driver, and methods of debugging drivers and handling interrupts, respectively.

Patterson, David and John Hennessy, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. (Morgan Kaufmann: 1990). Provides good general background on architectural features such as caches, busses, and interrupts. Kernel developers who need to improve their understanding of such topics may find this interesting.

 

C Language

Curry, David A., Learning the UNIX Operating System-A Guide to System Programming. (Nutshell Handbooks: 1989). Describes nearly all system calls and library routines provided by the operating system. A number of examples and "real world" applications are provided for study. The main focus of this book is on the 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD releases of the UNIX operating system. Where serious differences exist, both the Berkeley and AT&T System V environments are described.

Kernighan, Brian W. and Dennis M. Ritchie, , first edition. (Prentice-Hall: 1978). This is the original definition of the C programming language. C16/C32 are based on this version of C.

Moore, F. Richard, Programming in C with a Bit of UNIX. (Prentice-Hall: 1985). Provides an introduction to programming in C on the UNIX operating system for people with minimum background in computers and programming. This book was originally written as a chapter in a textbook on computer music, and has particular appeal to users coming to computers from a humanities background.

Plum, Thomas, Learning to Program in C. (Prentice-Hall: 1983). Provides an introduction to (or refresher on) the C programming language.

Plum, Thomas, C Programming Guidelines. (Plum Hall: 1984). Organized in reference manual fashion, this book suggests programming practices that lead to C code that is can be maintained and ported reasonably.

Tondo, Clovis L. and Scott E Gimpel, The C Answer Book. (Prentice-Hall: 1985). This book gives solutions to the exercises in the Kernighan/Ritchie book above.

 

Administrative Topics

Birns, Peter and David Lukas, "Automating System Processes Using cron and at." UNIX World, April 1988, pp. 101-107. Describes the use of the cron and at UNIX utilities that time events and make administration easier.

Fiedler, David and Bruce H. Hunter,UNIX System Administration. (Hayden Books: 1987). Provides instructions and guidelines for administering any of the UNIX operating systems.

O'Reilly, Tim and Grace Todino, Managing uucp and Usenet. (Nutshell Handbooks: 198?). Provides detailed information on how to set up UUCP, including information on RS-232 cabling, talking with modems, installing and administering Netnews facilities.

Strang, John, Tim O'Reilly, and Linda Mui, termcap and terminfo. (Nutshell Handbooks: 1988). Describes the syntax and capabilities of the terminfo database (and the related termcap database) used to support a wide variety of terminals with standard UNIX system drivers. The new edition of this book includes information on converting between termcap and terminfo.

Wood, Patrick, "Writing and Installing terminfo and termcap Entries." UNIX World, June 1988, pp. 133-139. Provides an introduction to setting up terminfo entries.

 

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