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    <title>lib</title>
    <prepared></prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date></date>
    <rev></rev>
  </header>
  <module>lib</module>
  <modulesummary>A number of useful library functions</modulesummary>
  <description>
    <warning>
      <p>This module is retained for compatibility. It may disappear
        without warning in a future release.</p>
    </warning>
  </description>
  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name name="flush_receive" arity="0"/>
      <fsummary>Flush messages</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Flushes the message buffer of the current process.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name name="error_message" arity="2"/>
      <fsummary>Print error message</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Prints error message <c><anno>Args</anno></c> in accordance with
          <c><anno>Format</anno></c>. Similar to <c>io:format/2</c>, see
          <seealso marker="io#fwrite/1">io(3)</seealso>.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name name="progname" arity="0"/>
      <fsummary>Return name of Erlang start script</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Returns the name of the script that started the current
          Erlang session.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name name="nonl" arity="1"/>
      <fsummary>Remove last newline</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Removes the last newline character, if any, in
          <c><anno>String1</anno></c>.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name name="send" arity="2"/>
      <fsummary>Send a message</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>This function to makes it possible to send a message using
          the <c>apply/3</c> BIF.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
    <func>
      <name name="sendw" arity="2"/>
      <fsummary>Send a message and wait for an answer</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>As <c>send/2</c>, but waits for an answer. It is implemented
          as follows:</p>
        <code type="none">
sendw(To, Msg) ->
    To ! {self(),Msg},
    receive
        Reply -> Reply
    end.</code>
        <p>The message returned is not necessarily a reply to the
          message sent.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>
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