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TOOLS Reference Manual

Rev. 1.4.1
Kenneth Lundin
1997-05-11

The Erlang Tools Application (TOOLS) contains a number of stand-alone tools which are useful when developing Erlang programs. The current set of tools are:

coast
A beta version of the new tool for coverage and call statistics analysis of Erlang programs.
cover
The old tool for coverage analysis of Erlang programs.
dbg
A text based trace facility. Makes it possible to trace function calls, messages etc. Can be used instead of, or as a complement to the Trace Tool.
emacs
An Erlang editing Erlang mode for Emacs; please see the User's Guide for more details.
eprof
An Erlang profiler; measure how time is used in your Erlang programs.
exref
A cross reference tool. Can be used to check external references between Erlang programs.
instrument
Utility functions for obtaining and analysing resource usage in an instrumented Erlang system.
make
A make utility for Erlang programs (similar to UNIX make).
tags
A module for creating TAGS file for the emacs tags functions.

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