16 Nov
2018
16 Nov
'18
6:36 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:33:15PM -0500, Jim Capp wrote:
PWB was great too, but what was most useful to me was
the
"UNIX programmer's manual" from Bell Telephone Laboratories (c) 1979, 1983
The first volume included all the man pages, a quick reference, and an index.
The second volume contained all the "how to" guides, including concise
summaries
of the facilities available on UNIX, the original UNIX paper from Ritchie and Thompson,
UNIX for Beginners from Kernighan, NROFF/TROFF User's Manual, TROFF Tutorial,
C Programming Language, Lint, Make, YACC, LEX, AWK, and on and on.
The combination of those two volumes was invaluable.
I still have the BSD versions of those, I think it expanded to 3 with
a systems admin volume. I agree, super useful.