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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
-<!DOCTYPE erlref SYSTEM "erlref.dtd">
-
-<erlref>
- <header>
- <copyright>
- <year>1996</year><year>2013</year>
- <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
- </copyright>
- <legalnotice>
- Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- limitations under the License.
-
- </legalnotice>
-
- <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>
-</erlref>
-