debian man page for otter

OTTER(1)						      General Commands Manual							  OTTER(1)

NAME
       otter - resolution-style theorem prover

SYNOPSIS
       otter < input-file > output-file

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the otter command.

       otter  is a resolution-style theorem-proving program for first-order logic with equality. otter includes the inference rules binary resolu-
       tion, hyperresolution, UR-resolution, and binary paramodulation. Some of its other abilities and features are conversion  from  first-order
       formulas  to  clauses,  forward	and back subsumption, factoring, weighting, answer literals, term ordering, forward and back demodulation,
       evaluable functions and predicates, Knuth-Bendix completion, and the hints strategy.

OPTIONS
       No command-line options are accepted; all options are given in the input file.

SEE ALSO
       anldp(1), formed(1), mace2(1).
       Full documentation for otter is found in /usr/share/doc/otter/otter33.{html,ps.gz}.

AUTHOR
       otter ws written by William McCune <otter@mcs.anl.gov>

       This manual page was written by Peter Collingbourne <pcc03@doc.ic.ac.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								 November  5, 2006							  OTTER(1)