Table of Contents -- Linux Journal #42 -- October 1997

Emphasis: Software Development

Features

• Literate Programming Using Noweb by Andrew Johnson and Brad Johnson
  An introduction to Noweb, a tool designed to aid the programmer in producing understandable and easy to maintain code.
• Remote Procedure Calls in Linux by Ed Petron
  An introduction to this vital software development technique.
• Xmotd: Writing Free Software by Luis Fernandes
  This message-of-the-day browser was written to ease the burden of the local system administrator.
• Portability and Power with the F Programming Language by David Epstein and Dick Hendrickson
  The authors combine over forty years of language-design committee experience to create the world's most portable, yet efficient, powerful, yet simple programming language.

News & Articles

• Setting up a SPARCstation by John Little
• LJ Interviews Thomas Roell by Marjorie Richardson
• PostScript: The Forgotten Art of Programming by Hans DeVreught
• Linux and the Alpha by David Mosberger

Reviews

• Product Review
  • SpellCaster DataCommute/BRI ISDN Adaptor by Jay Painter
• Book Review
  • Internet Programming with Python by Dwight Johnson
  • Unix Programming Tools by Andrew L. Johnson
  • Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by David Bausum
  • Apache: The Definitive Guide by Luca Cott Ramusino

WWWsmith

• Linux as an Internet Kiosk by Kevin McCormick
• At the Forge: Integrating SQL with CGI, Part 1 by Reuven Lerner

Columns

• Letters to the Editor
• From the Publisher: Internet Changes/Linux Changes by Phil Hughes
• Stop the Presses: What Price High-Performance I/O? by Phil Hughes
• Linux Apprentice: DDD---The Data Display Debugger by Shay Rojansky
• Take Command: cat by Patrick Hill
• Linux Means Business: Grundig TV-Communications by Ted Kenney
• New Products
• System Administration: Pgfs: The PostGres File System by Brian Bartholomew
• Kernel Korner: Kernel-Level Exception Handling by Joerg Pommnitz
• Linux Gazette: The Dotfile Generator by Jesper K Pedersen
• Best of Technical Support