Computer Manuals locally at the Sternwarte Bonn
in the HyperText Markup Language
This page links all manuals of general interest in
HTML format about computer related subjects
stored locally at the Sternwarte.
If you are interested in the freshest information available (even though I try
to keep this up-to-date), have a look at the StwUB
Computer Link Page.
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computer manual not linked here to J.M.B.!
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System of the Sternwarte is also available - but
only from inside our domain (i.e. AIUB).
- 1. Linux/Unix/GNU Manuals
- HTML manuals by the
Linux Documentation
Project (LDP)
- HTML manuals
by the GNU Project
- 'acct-6.3.2':
Accounting Utilities Manual
+ Version 6.3.2 by Noel Cragg
- 36 kB helpfile, dated March 1998
- 'autoconf-2.12':
Creating Automatic Configuration Scripts
+ Edition 2.12 by David MacKenzie for Autoconf
version 2.12
- 262 kB helpfile, dated November 1996
- 'automake-1.3'
+ For version 1.3 by David MacKenzie and Tom Tromey
- 109 kB helpfile, dated April 1998
- 'bash-2.02':
Bash Reference Manual
+ Edition 2.2 by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox for the
`Bourne-Again SHell' version 2.02
- 310 kB helpfile, dated April 1998
- 'bc-1.05':
An Arbitrary Precision Calculator
+ By Ken Pizzini
- 16 kB helpfile
- 'bfd-2.9.1':
Binary File Descriptor Library
+ First Edition by Steve Chamberlain
- 266 kB helpfile, dated April 1991
- 'binutils-2.9.1':
The GNU Binary Utilities
(e.g. strings, strip)
+ Version 2.9.1 by Roland H. Pesch and
Jeffrey M. Osier
- 99 kB helpfile, dated May 1993
- 'bison-1.25'
+ For Bison Version 1.25 by Charles Donnelly and
Richard Stallman
- 211 kB helpfile, dated November 1995
- 'cvs-1.9':
Concurrent Versions System
+ For CVS 1.9 by Per Cederqvist et al.
- 301 kB helpfile
- 'dejagnu-1.3':
The DejaGnu Testing Framework
+ For DejaGnu Version 1.3 by Rob Savoye
- 167 kB helpfile, dated January 1996
- 'diffutils-2.7':
Comparing and Merging Files
+ Edition 1.3 by David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and
Richard Stallman for diff 2.5 and patch 2.1
- 180 kB helpfile, dated September 1993
- 'elisp-manual-20-2.5':
GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
+ Revision 2.5 by Bil Lewis, Dan LaLiberte,
Richard Stallman and the GNU Manual Group
- 2.1 MB helpfile, dated May 1998
- 'emacs-20.3':
GNU Emacs Manual
+ 13th edition by Richard Stallman for Emacs
Version 20.3
- 1.5 MB helpfile, dated August 1998
- 'emacs-lisp-intro':
Programmming in Emacs Lisp - An Introduction
+ Edition 1.05 by Robert J. Chassell
- 640 kB helpfile, dated October 1997
- 'fileutils-3.16':
A set of file utilities
+ For version 3.16 by David MacKenzie et al.
- 142 kB helpfile, dated November 1996
- 'findutils-4.1':
Finding Files
+ Edition 1.1 by David MacKenzie for find
version 4.1
- 98 kB helpfile, dated November 1994
- 'finger-1.37'
+ Edition 1.3 by Jan Brittenson and Brian Fox for
GNU Finger version 1.37
- 40 kB helpfile, dated October 1992
- 'flex-2.5.4':
Flex - A fast scanner generator
+ Edition 2.5 by Vern Paxson for Flex Version 2.5
- 117 kB helpfile, dated March 1995
- 'gawk-3.0.3':
User's Guide for GNU Awk
+ Edition 1.0.3 by Arnold D. Robbins
- 781 kB helpfile, dated February 1997
- 'gas-2.9.1':
User Guide for the GNU Assembler ``as''
+ By Dean Elsner, Jay Fenlason & friends
- 354 kB helpfile, dated January 1994
- 'gcc' - The GNU
C Compiler:
(1) Using and Porting GNU CC;
(2) The C Preprocessor;
(3) GNU C++ Internals
and ``man pages'' for gcc,
g++, and
cpp
+ (1) by Richard M. Stallman for GCC Version 2.8.1,
dated February 1998;
(2) by Richard M. Stallman, dated March 1997;
(3) by Mike Stump, dated February 1999 (?)
- 2.1 MB helpfiles
- 'gettext-0.10':
Native Language Support Library and Tools
+ Edition 0.10 by Ulrich Drepper, Jim Meyering,
Pinard
- 195 kB helpfile, dated November
- 'gleem-1.0':
OpenGL Extremely Easy-to-use Manipulators
+ Version 1.0
- 21 kB helpfile, dated November 1998
- 'glibc-2.0.6':
Reference Manual for the GNU C library
+ Edition 0.07 DRAFT by Sandra Loosemore with
Richard M. Stallman, Roland McGrath, Andrew Oram, and
Ulrich Drepper for Version 2.00 Beta
- 1.8 MB helpfile, dated October 1996
- 'gmp-2.0':
The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
+ Edition 2.0 by Torbj@"orn Granlund
- 131 kB helpfile, dated April 1996
- 'gperf-2.7':
User's Guide to gperf - the perfect hash function generator
+ Version 2.7 by Douglas C. Schmidt
- 53 kB helpfile, dated April 1998
- 'gprof-2.9.1':
The GNU Profiler
+ By Jay Fenlason and Richard Stallman
- 87 kB helpfile
- 'gzip-1.2.4':
GZIP - The data compression program
+ Edition 1.2.4 by Jean-loup Gailly for Gzip
Version 1.2.4
- 36 kB helpfile, dated July 1993
- 'ld-2.9.1':
Using ``ld'' - The GNU linker
+ By Steve Chamberlain for ld version 2
- 167 kB helpfile, dated January 1994
- 'm4-1.4':
M4 - A powerful macro processor
+ Edition 1.4 by René Seindal
- 117 kB helpfile, dated November 1994
- 'make-3.77':
GNU Make - A Program for Directing Recompilation
+ By Richard M. Stallman and Roland McGrath for
Version 3.77
- 446 kB helpfile, dated May 1998
- 'nana-1.14':
Improved support for assertions and logging in C and C++
+ For version 1.14 by P.J.Maker
- 107 kB helpfile, dated February 1998
-
'ncurses'
- The GNU NCURSES Library:
(1) Writing
Programs with NCURSES;
(2) A Hacker's
Guide to NCURSES Internals
+ (1) Version 1.23 by Eric S. Raymond and
Zeyd M. Ben-Halim, dated February 1998;
(2) Version 1.17 by Eric S. Raymond, dated February 1998
- 152 kB helpfile
- 'plotutils-2.1.5':
Programs and functions for drawing and data plotting
+ Version 2.1.5 by Robert S. Maier and
Nicholas B. Tufillaro
- 370 kB helpfile
- 'sharutils-4.2':
A set of shell archiver utilities
+ Edition 4.1.9 by Jan Dj@"arv, Pinard
- 25 kB helpfile, dated October
- 'tar-1.12':
GNU TAR: An Archiver Tool
+ Version 1.12 by Melissa Weisshaus, Jay Fenlason,
Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG, Amy Gorin
- 390 kB helpfile, dated April 1997
- 'termcap-1.3':
The Termcap Library and Data Base
+ Second Edition by Richard M. Stallman
- 162 kB helpfile, dated December 1992
- 'termutils-2.0':
Portable Terminal Control From Scripts
(tput and tabs)
+ Edition 2.0 by David MacKenzie and Junio Hamano
for version 2.0
- 30 kB helpfile, dated December 1995
- 'texinfo-3.9':
The GNU Documentation Format
+ Edition 2.23 by Robert J. Chassell and Richard M.
Stallman for Texinfo Version Three
- 581 kB helpfile, dated October 1996
- 'textutils-1.22':
A set of text utilities
(e.g. cat, tail, wc)
+ For version 1.22 by David MacKenzie et al.
- 132 kB helpfile, dated January 1997
- 'wget-1.5.3':
The noninteractive downloading utility
+ For Wget 1.5.3 by Hrvoje Lacko
- 125 kB helpfile, dated September 1998
- 2. World Wide Web - WWW - W3
- General Web Tutorials
- Browsers
- Utilities
- Web Accessibility (Specification of the W3C)
- HTML (Specification of the W3C)
- DHTML
- XML (Specification of the W3C)
- Style Sheets (Specification of the W3C)
- VRML (Specification of the Web3D Consortium)
- Java
- JavaScript
Reference
+ Netscape documentation of this Navigator Scripting
Language up to JavaScript 1.2
- 2.5 MB helpfiles, dated October 1997
- JavaScript
Guide
+ Netscape documentation of this Navigator Scripting
Language
- 729 kB helpfiles, dated November 1997
- JavaScript
Security
+ Netscape documentation of this Navigator Scripting
Language
- 260 kB helpfiles, dated September 1997
- Serverside JavaScript
Applications
+ Netscape documentation of this Navigator Scripting
Language
- 1.2 MB helpfiles, dated December 1997
- Document Object Model (Specification of the W3C)
- Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(Specification of the W3C)
- 3. Graphics
- Image Formats
- Postscript Viewer
- Plotting Programs
- SuperMongo 2.4.x
+ Modern plot programm by Robert Lupton
& Patricia Monger
- 700 kB helpfile, from original files
dated March 1998 to October 1999
* Original Files
- GNUplot 3.7
+ Extreme large and programmable plot program
by Thomas Williams & Colin Kelley
- 355 kB helpfile, dated December 1998
- 4. Astronomical Software
- General Packages
- Linux for Astronomy
+ edited by the
Linux for
Astronomy project
- 22 MB helpfiles, dated January 1997
[CD 1/97]
o including GIPSY, IRAF, KARMA, MIDAS, MIRIAD,
NEMO, PGPERL, SAOIMAGE, SAOtng, Starbase
- Munich Image Data Analysis
System
x Changes to
MIDAS, releases 95NOV to 98NOV
x FAQ
x MIDAS help
from LFA (see above)
o original link to ESO-MIDAS homepage
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