ALMA Common Software Documentation on non-ACS Software

This page containes links to public domain and comercial software packages and tools currently installed or used with ACS.

Public Domain Software

GNU Tools

Complete information and documentation about GNU tools is available at the following links:

• GNU Software Directory
• GNU Manuals Online
• Here are a couple of links that are not directly accessible through the previous pages, but "hidden" there:
  • GNU gdb
  • groff
  • GNU patch

Other general purpose tools

• expect 5.32.1
• rman 3.0.7
• Doxygen 1.2.13.1

CORBA

• A couple of interesting online books are available here:
  http://www.ciaranmchale.com/

C++

• ACE/TAO Home Page
  • ACE 5.4 (doxygen documentation)
  • TAO 1.4 (doxygen documentation)
  • Online publications from D.C.Schmidt
    Contains many papers explaining in detail most of the important concepts and patterns used in ACS and TAO
  • ACE Online Tutorials
  • ACS Programmer's Guide, the ACE book
  • TAO Developer’s Guide,
    Object Computing Inc. (www.ociweb.com)
  • TAO FAQs at OCI
  • Options for TAO Components