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In general terms, documentation is any communicable material (such as text, video, audio, etc., or combinations thereof) used to explain some attributes of an object, system or procedure. It is often used to mean engineering or software documentation, which is usually paper books or computer readable files (such as HTML pages) that describe the structure and components, or on the other hand, operation, of a system/product.
A professional whose field and work is more or less exclusively to write documentation is called a documenter. Normally, documenters are trained or have a background in technical writing, along with some knowledge of the subject(s) they are documenting. Often, though, some part or all of the documentation process is done by the engineers responsible for the system/product to be documented.
By engineers, perhaps among software engineers in particular, documentation is often referred to as the "boring side" of engineering, or considered a necessary evil. This is largely unavoidable since most engineers prefer building things to documenting them, and being implicit experts in what they have built, they may have little motivation in documenting their creations so that others may understand them.
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UnixPower - Help site and portal documenting all major Unix distributions.
Meta Description: [ Unix Help ]
Examware - Unix tutorials, exercises and resources. Features on-line tests and training materials.
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First Edition Unix Manual - The original Unix users manual.
Intermediate Unix - Review of shell use, and overview of useful utilities.
Online Single Unix Specification - Ordering page for the Open Group's Single Unix Specification.
pyttymon - A simple daemon that monitors and limits usage of ttys. It is implemented in Python. A simple config file can specify monthly, daily, session, and idle limits based on tty, user, group, and ttys in use.
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Remote Control of UNIX Netscape Browsers -
Understanding Unix Concepts - Conceptual discussion of Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
Unix and Linux Commands - Basic as well as more obscure commands for Unix/Linux operating systems.
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Unix for Advanced Users - Description of startup/shutdown, process management and memory management.
Unix for Beginners - Brian Kernighan's 1979 classic introduction to the facilities Unix offers, from the 7th Edition manual.
Unix Guru Universe - Searchable collection of articles and guides for Unix administrators and power-users. Offers materials on all major and many minor distributions.
Unix Help Files - Searchable database from U-Texas.
Unix Manuals - Brief Unix tutorial, online man pages and reference materials for the Unix operating system and common Unix utilities.
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Unix Seventh Edition Manual - Source material from Bell Labs.
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UNIX Signals and Process Groups - A short survey of UNIX signal handling and process groups, both conceptually and with interface descriptions. Compares System V Release 3, System V Release 4, BSD, and POSIX variants.
Unix Sysadmin Guide - Description of Unix internals.
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Unix Unleashed, Internet Edition - Online book; GUI, editors, awk, perl, C, C++, make, roff, security, HTML, MIME, CGI, RCS, CVS, SCCS, FAQs.
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