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ASP offers a series of comprehensive reference booklets on a range of UNIX and C topics like System V UNIX, Berkeley BSD UNIX, System Administration for System V UNIX, UNIX System Programming, Bourne Shell Programming, C Shell Programming, Korn Shell Programming, C Programming, Text Editing with Vi and Ed, Using the Source Code Control System, and Using Netnews with USENET. These guides are in a handy, portable format and can be customized to include a company name and logo. New publications, which will cover XENIX, MS-DOS, Pascal and BSD System Administration will be available by mid-1988. ASP UNIX/C reference publications are available at technical bookstores or by mail order (add .50 for each book and CA sales tax if applicable) from: ASP 711 Chemeketa Dr San Jose CA 95123 UNIX Reference Guide for System V $7.95 summarizes the user and system administration commands for System V UNIX. Each command entry lists usage and syntax, and describes command options and arguments. This publication also contains more detailed sections on awk, ed, regular expressions, sed, sh, and vi. Examples of the most popular commands are also included. UNIX Reference Guide for BSD $7.95 summarizes the user commands for 4.3 BSD UNIX. Each command entry lists usage and syntax, and describes command options, arguments, environment variables, files, and subcommands. It also contains more detailed sections on awk, csh, ed, regular expressions, sed, sh, and vi. 4.2 BSD commands and options are also indicated. Examples of the most popular commands are also included. UNIX System Admin Guide for System V $7.95 summarizes system administration commands and procedures for System V UNIX. Each command entry lists usage and syntax and describes command options and arguments. Accounting, file system checking, cron, adding users and groups, managing uucp, printers, startup, shutdown and more are described in step-by-step procedures. Command and procedure examples are also included. Netnews Reference Guide $7.95 summarizes the UNIX user and administration commands that provide access to the USENET news. Each command entry lists usage and syntax, and describes command options, arguments, environment variables, files, and subcommands. It also contains detailed sections on news articles, news groups, mailing lists, article formats, the .newsrc file, news interfaces, netiquette, netnews files and directories. It also has examples for the user and administration commands. Complete C Reference Guide $9.95 summarizes the C programming language, 157 UNIX and C library functions, and UNIX commands for C program development. This guide lists keywords, data types, constants, operators, statement formats, and preprocessor statements, and contains detailed descriptions of data types, declarations, functions, input and output format, storage classes, type conversions, and command line arguments. 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