Developer Toolbox Topics Relative to
General, Non Release-Specific IRIX
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This document presents all materials related to the topic of
general, non release-specific IRIX on the Toolbox.
DOCUMENTS:
- SGI Admin FAQ
- Automating and Scheduling Jobs with Cron, 1/96
- Benefits of timex, par, and padc re: costs of process execution
- Caching and Locality discusses issues surrounding computer memory, 11/94
- Getting and Setting User Context Within a Process, 7/95
- Getting Started With Socket Programming, 5/95
- guidelines for the use of the /usr/share filesystem, 3/94
- Installing and Running IRIX on a Drive Other Than Drive 1, 11/95
- IRIS Periodic tables for Workstation/Client, Challenge Server, Onyx Family, Power Challenge
- IRIX Admin Manual Set:
- Local and Remote File Locking, 3/96
- Onyx Platform, Graphics, and General Specifications Tables, 2/96
- The Paging Game
- Periodic Tables:
- Programming on Silicon Graphics Systems: An Overview, 3/96
- Restarting Sendmail, 3/96
- SGITCL Programmer's Guide, 3/96
- Supported Releases, 11/95
- Topics in IRIX Programming , 3/96
SOURCE:
- context:
getting and setting user context within a process
- fileLocking:
local and remote file locking programs
- load_avg:
obtain the current system load average
- playEngine:
sprocb/semaphore raises sub-process's priority to circumvent preemption
- public/freeware1.0:
- bash, v1.14.5 -- enhanced shell
- binutils, v2.5.2 -- object file utilities
- bison, v1.22 -- improved yacc
- elm, v2.4PL24 ME5a -- full-screen, text-based electronic mail client
- expect, v5.18 -- Tcl tool for programmed dialogue w/interactive progs
- exmh, v1.6.2 -- TCL/TK based interface to the MH mail system
- fileutils, v3.12 -- file handling utilities
- findutils, v4.1 -- find, xargs, locate
- flex, v2.5.2 -- improved lexical analyzer generator
- freeze/melt, v2.3.1 -- compression/decompression program
- gawk, v2.1.15 -- GNU version of awk
- glimpse, v3.0 -- file indexing and query system
- grep, v2.0 -- gnu grep
- groff, v1.09 -- doc tools replace {n,t,ps}roff, eqn, tbl, etc.
- ispell, v3.1 -- screen-based spell checker
- less, v290 -- Like more(1) but better
- llnlxftp, v2.0.4 -- an X ftp client
- metamail, v2.7 -- implementation of MIME
- mh, v6.8.3 -- Message Handling pkg for e-mail, b-boards, etc
- nfswatch, v4.1 -- monitor NFS requests
- qpopper, v2.1.4 -- POP (Post Office Protocol) server
- sc, v6.21 -- spread sheet program
- screen, v3.7.1 -- terminal multiplexer
- sed, v2.05 -- UNIX standard stream editor
- shutils, v1.12 -- shell utilities
- tar, v1.11.8 -- improved tar
- tex/latex v3.1415 -- document preparation system
- texinfo, v3.6 -- text based hypertext system
- textutils, v1.12 -- text utilities
- tin, v1.2PL2 -- news reader
- top, v3.3 -- dynamic process status
- turn, v1.0 -- news reader
- unzip, v3.0 -- archive utility
- vim, v3.0 -- vi improved
- wu-ftpd, v2.4 -- for Un*x systems replacement ftp server
- xarchie, v210.10 -- prosero client
- xdaliclock -- digital clock, digit changes melts to new digits
- xemacs, v19.13 -- text editor
- xkeycaps, v2.29 -- graphical tool to change xmodmap files
- xless -- a graphical version of GNU less
- xtail, v2.1 -- eXtended tail of standard UNIX 'tail -f'
- zip, v2.0.1 -- archive utility
- scripts:
c-shell scripts, shell programming source examples
- sockets:
introduction to sockets with a client and a server program
- tools:
12 unix/system-level programs
- uucpVadmin:
src + inst images for the UUCP vadmin (visual administration) tool
- src/haeberli/libgutil/
contains the following relevant modules:
- file.c:
miscellaneous support for files
- filepath.c:
pathname convenience package
- fileview.c:
identify+save type of each file in a file in each directory
- getfile.c:
file manipulation support
- misc.c:
miscellaneous system-based functions not relying on the GL
- mysystem.c:
alternative implementation of system
- rand.c:
generate high quality randow nums (employs Berkeley random)
- rpc.c:
put different types to a stream: floats, ints, strings & newlines
- src/swtools/generic/ provides
a "generic" app providing a file-opening template I/O interface to UNIX.
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