Linux Journal Contents #42, October 1997

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 Walt Brainerd, 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
  
• Book Review   Unix Programming Tools  by Andrew L. Johnson
  
• Book Review   Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment  by David Bausum
  
• Book Review   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