Ciao Command-line Help

Author(s): Ciao Development Team, Jose F. Morales.

Formatted help for the ciao and ciao-boot.sh (ciao-boot.bat) command line tool

Usage and interface

Documentation on exports

PREDICATE

Usage:show_help(Level,Prof)

Show help for the command line interface. Level specifies the detail level and Prof the command line profile (useful when the same command may act in different ways).

  • Call and exit should be compatible with:
    (ciaocl_help:help_level/1)ciaocl_help:help_level(Level)
    (basic_props:atm/1)Prof is an atom.
  • The following properties should hold at call time:
    (term_typing:nonvar/1)Level is currently a term which is not a free variable.
    (term_typing:nonvar/1)Prof is currently a term which is not a free variable.

PREDICATE

Usage:show_help_cmd(Cmd,Prof)

Show detailed help on the specified command Cmd (shows help of the command group)