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- Some documents on programming. Mostly to do with style and
- performance. The files *.doc are for ordinary terminals or
- line-printers - the .ps/.PS files are PostScript and can be listed on
- any of the LaserWriters or the Imagen.
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- c-news is the Geoff Collyer/Henry Spencer Usenix '87 paper "News need
- not be slow" describing C-News. Interesting tips for people concerned
- about program performance.
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- ihstyle is the "Indian Hill C Style and Coding Standards" from Bell
- Labs, "as amended for U of T Zoology" by Henry Spencer. Follow it.
- Please.
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- pikestyle contains Rob Pike's notes on Programming in C, some comments on
- programming style for C.
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- steal.ms is Henry Spencer's Winter Usenix '88 paper on "How To Steal
- Code or Inventing The Wheel Only Once".
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- canthappen.PS is the PostScript for the "Can't Happen or /*NOTREACHED*/ or
- Real Programs Dump Core" paper by Ian Darwin and Geoff Collyer from Usenix
- '85. (troff source not available - contact the authors) Its suffix is .PS to
- distinguish from the *generated* PostScript files (which have .ps suffixes)
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- ten-commandments contains Henry's Ten Commandments for writing C code.
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- setuid is a document about things to watch out for in writing setuid
- root programs, or other programs that need be careful about security.
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- - moraes
-