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    <title>Introduction</title>
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    <file>sasl_intro.xml</file>
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  <section>
    <title>Scope</title>
    <p>The <c>SASL</c> application provides support for:</p>
    <list type="bulleted">
      <item>Error logging</item>
      <item>Alarm handling</item>
      <item>Release handling</item>
      <item>Report browsing</item>
    </list>
    <p>Section
      <seealso marker="error_logging">SASL Error Logging</seealso> 
      describes the error
      handler that produces the supervisor, progress, and crash
      reports, which can be written to screen or to a specified file.
      It also describes the Report Browser (RB).</p>
    <p>The sections about release structure and release handling have
      been moved to section
      <seealso marker="doc/design_principles:users_guide">OTP Design Principles</seealso>
      in <em>System Documentation</em>.</p>
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  <section>
    <title>Prerequisites</title>
    <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang
      programming language.</p>
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