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As a new ECLiPSe user I am running into problems.

I was able to consult a .pl file, but when I changed the extension to .ecl I got a file-does-not-exist message.

I was even able to run the .pl file, but couldn't access any of the subsidiary predicates. Only the longest one ran. (It was not called main.)

I finally added an export line, which solved the problem.

Loading ['../<current-directory>/file.ecl'] worked, but attempting to load ['file.ecl'] or ['./file.ecl'] produced a no-such-file message.

Is there a repository of newbie questions and answers or a mailing list of users?

Thanks.

RussAbbott
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There is quite extensive documentation on the ECLiPSe web site, and also mailing lists and the stackoverflow tag .

You should not have any problems with file extensions: .ecl and .pl are both accepted (with .ecl preferred if both are present), see here. There is the usual notion of the current directory, which has to be taken into account when using relative pathnames.

You only need export directives when you use module directives -- for small experiments you can omit both.

jschimpf
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