The UNIX Reference-Desk

This document contains references to material culled from a number of different sources
on computing in the UNIX environment.

The resources in this document are divided into the following classes:

General

Texinfo Pages

Applications

Programming

IBM AIX Systems

HP-UX Systems

Unix for PCs

Sun Systems

X Windows

Networking

Security

Humor

• UNIXhelp - An introduction to the UNIX operating system
  

• Unix is a Four Letter Word... and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation (also available as a 48 page PostScript file) - A humorous and sometimes zany introduction to Unix and the Vi text editor.

• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing Acronym Search The Jargon File Keyword Search UNIXhelp
• [misc.books.technical] A Concise Guide to UNIX Books

• Directory of USENET FAQs -- In particular:
  • UNIX Frequently Asked Questions -- Contents
    1. General questions
    2. Relatively basic questions, likely to be asked by beginners
    3. Intermediate questions
    4. Advanced questions, likely to be asked by people who thought they already knew all of the answers
    5. Questions pertaining to the various shells, and the differences
    6. An overview of Unix variants
    7. A comparison of configuration management systems (RCS, SCCS)
  • UNIX Shells FAQ:
    • Csh Programming Considered Harmful
    • Welcome to comp.unix.shell
    • rc shell Frequently Asked Questions
    • UNIX shell differences and how to change your shell
    • Z-shell Frequently-Asked Questions

• The 4.4BSD Manuals - including:
  • UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents (PSD)
  • UNIX System Manager's Manual (SMM)
  • UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)

• The Computing Virtual Library
• The Engineering Virtual Library
• Rice University's huge collection of computing resources - Rice U's UNIX documentation
• Internet Basics from GNN
• Steve Franklin's Newbie's Guide to the Net
• Newsgroups on computing
• UNIX software via FTP
• Search for UNIX/X Software

The following is a fairly comprehensive view of the info pages available over the WWW. They are collected from a number of different sites.

(A list of locally stored info pages is here)

• Electronic Mail, Electronic Mail (from EFF's GTTI), Advanced Email (from EFF's GTTI)

• Usenet: the Global Watering Hole (from EFF's GTTI), Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles (from EFF's GTTI), Reading Usenet News

• Elm
• Emacs
• Glimpse -- index and search through entire file systems
• Matlab
• Pine
• TeX and LaTeX - see especially, Essential LaTeX
• Trn, rn KILL file FAQ
• VI (a second tutorial of vi)

Also check the texinfo pages.

Computing Languages Virtual Library

• Ada
• C - frequently asked questions, Programming in C (an online guide), tutorial, plain-text tutorial, literature on programming in C, LEARN C/C++ TODAY (A list of resources/tutorials)
• C++
• Fortran 90 - tutorial
• Lisp
• Perl
• PostScript - a first guide, FAQ, sources FAQ
• Prolog
• Python
• Scheme
• Tcl

Also check the texinfo pages.

• AIX Support Group at the University of Waterloo
• RS/6000 links and AIX FAQ maintained by Vincent Renardias

• A UNIX tutorial for HP-UX 9.01
• Tutorial on the HP VUE Operating System
• man pages for HP-UX
• HP-UX Frequently Asked Questions (also here)
• Access HP (HP's home page)
  • Hewlett Packard SupportLine Services
  • Contributed information - Web offerings of HP users

  • Search Problem Solving Databases :
    Engineering Notes Service Requests (SSBs/SRBs)
• The Anonymous HP-UX Software Archive: USA, UK, Germany, France
• System Administrators Mailing List for HP-UX

• BSDI home page
• FreeBSD home page
• Information on BSD and flavors (386BSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD)
• Linux Documentation Project
• NetBSD home page
• SCO home page
• UnixWare
• XFree86 home page

• UNIX on Macs
• NetBSD/mac68k
• Apple A/UX: FAQs, jagubox's A/UX home page

• SunOS Man pages
• FAQs: Sun-Managers, Sun Computer Administration, Solaris 2
• Search Sun Managers Summaries
• Search the alt-sys-sun sun-admin sun-announce sun-apps sun-fixes sun-hardware sun-managers-summary sun-misc sun-openlook sun-solaris sun-sounds sun-wanted sun-whitepapers sunflash-1994 sunspots databases
  with the words
• Sun Microsystems Home Page: with or without inlined images
• SunOS White Papers
• SunOS Information Page (courtesy of SunSITE)

• SunService Public Patch Page - browse the patch directory
  
  Search Patch READMEs

• How to improve security on a newly installed SunOS 4.1.3 system

• X Consortium WWW Server
• Sources of information about X
• XFree86 home page
• An online guide to programming in X/Motif
• X11 Release 6: Release Notes, An Overview, Xt man pages, Xlib man pages
• EXUG (European X User Group)
• Andrew Consortium Home Page

• X11 Frequently Asked Questions
• comp.windows.x.apps FAQ
• The X Widget FAQ
• Motif FAQ

• Index on public-domain X software
• ftp.x.org:/contrib (UUNET mirror)
• The FVWM homepage

The Networking Virtual Library

• InterNIC Internet Documentation (RFC's, FYI's, etc.)
• RFC Index Search Form
• Introduction to DNS
• Introduction to TCP/IP
• Network Reading List: TCP/IP, UNIX, and Ethernet
• The Ethernet Page
• IP Next Generation (IPng/IPv6)

• Internet Tools Summary
  
• Information Sources: the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
• Search Inter-Network Mail Guide

• Computer and Network Security Reference Index
• Network/Computer Security Technology
• Security-related files
• comp.security.unix FAQs

• COAST Security Archive -- jump directly to: alerts, documents (README), news+lists, Unix tools (description of tools)

• The Uebercracker's Security Web
• SATAN documentation

• Hypermail archive of the Bugtraq Mailing List
  
  Search Bugtraq
  Case insensitive Allow partial match to a word
  (Glimpse search. i.e., `#' is the wild card character, `;' is the AND op., and the following special characters: $ ^ * [ | ( ) ! \ ; , # < > - . should be preceded by \ if they are to be matched as regular characters.)

• Archives: BOFH, Computer Humor, Computer Jokes, Computer Lore, April Fools on the Net
• Some favorites: The ABCs of Unix, Befuddled PC Users Flood Help Lines, Command-line humor, Kernel manners, Know your sysadmin!, Unix Admin. Horror Story Summary, Macs vs. UNIX.
• Search The Jargon File
• Comics: NetBoy

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