1.2 Terminology

1.2 Terminology

A specific terminology has arisen for dealing with FunnelWeb.

Some particularly useful examples are:

Tutorial

Journal file:

 An output file containing a copy of

the output sent to the user s console during an

Developer

invocation of FunnelWeb. In other systems, this

file is sometimes called a "log file".

Reference

Product file:

 An output file, generated by the

1 Introduction

Tangle component of FunnelWeb, that contains the

2 Interface

expansion of the macros in the input file. (Other

3 Scanner

names considered for this were: generated file,

4 Parser

expanded file, result file, program file, and tangle

file.)

5 Analyser

6 Tangle

A complete list of all the special FunnelWeb terminology

7 Weave

appears in the 

glossary

. Be sure to refer to it if any of the terms

8 Shell

used are unclear.

9 Commands

10 Glossary

11 References

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