Getting Help
On a Unix system, we can access the man pages as follows:
| | $ erl -man erl |
| | NAME |
| | erl - The Erlang Emulator |
| | |
| | DESCRIPTION |
| | The erl program starts the Erlang runtime system. |
| | The exact details (e.g. whether erl is a script |
| | or a program and which other programs it calls) are system-dependent. |
| | ... |
We can also get help about individual modules as follows:
| | $ erl -man lists |
| | MODULE |
| | lists - List Processing Functions |
| | |
| | DESCRIPTION |
| | This module contains functions for list processing. |
| | The functions are organized in two groups: |
| | ... |
Note: On a Unix system, the manual pages are not
installed by default. If the command erl -man ... does not work, then you need to install the manual pages. All the manual pages are in a single compressed ...
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