debian man page for rewriter

REWRITER(1)						      General Commands Manual						       REWRITER(1)

NAME
       rewriter - demodulate terms

SYNOPSIS
       rewriter <demodulators-file> < <terms-file> > <rewritten-terms-file>

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the rewriter command.

       Rewrite	a stream of terms with a list of demodulators. The demodulators are used left-to-right as given, and they are not checked for ter-
       mination.

SYNTAX
       The file of demodulators contains optional commands then a list of demodulators.  The commands can be used to declare infix operations  and
       associativity/commutativity.  Example file of demodulators:

	   op(400, infix, ^).
	   op(400, infix, v).
	   assoc_comm(^).
	   assoc_comm(v).
	   formulas(demodulators).
	   x ^ x = x.
	   x ^ (x v y) = x.
	   x v x = x.
	   x v (x ^ y) = x.
	   end_of_list.

SEE ALSO
       prover9(1), mace4(1).
       Full  documentation  for  rewriter  is  found  in  the  prover9	manual,  available  on	Debian	systems  in  the  prover9-doc  package	at
       /usr/share/doc/prover9-doc/manual/index.html.

AUTHOR
       rewriter was written by William McCune <mccune@cs.unm.edu>

       This manual page was written by Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								 January 20, 2007						       REWRITER(1)