[Swift-commit] r6287 - in trunk/docs: quickstart userguide

ketan at ci.uchicago.edu ketan at ci.uchicago.edu
Sun Feb 17 19:22:59 CST 2013


Author: ketan
Date: 2013-02-17 19:22:58 -0600 (Sun, 17 Feb 2013)
New Revision: 6287

Modified:
   trunk/docs/quickstart/quickstart.txt
   trunk/docs/userguide/commands
Log:
minor improvements

Modified: trunk/docs/quickstart/quickstart.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/quickstart/quickstart.txt	2013-02-18 00:39:03 UTC (rev 6286)
+++ trunk/docs/quickstart/quickstart.txt	2013-02-18 01:22:58 UTC (rev 6287)
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 In general, they are more stable, have fewer bugs, and have been tested on a variety of
 systems.
 
-The development version of Swift is aimed at developers and testers. The development 
-code has the highest chance of containing buggy and untested code. If you need stability 
-please use the latest stable release. 
+The development version of Swift is aimed at developers and testers. The
+development code has the highest chance of containing buggy and/or untested
+code. If you need stability, use the latest stable release. 
 
 Downloading a Swift Distribution
 --------------------------------
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 directory is located. If you installed Swift from a binary release, it will
 be in the swift-0.93/bin directory where you installed it. If you followed
 the instructions above for installing Swift from a source repository, it
-will be located in swift-0.93/cog/modules/swift/dist/swift-svn/bin.
+will be located in swift-<version>/cog/modules/swift/dist/swift-svn/bin.
 
 Add the following line to the bottom of ~/.bashrc:
 
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@
 Running Swift Examples
 ----------------------
 The Swift examples can be found in the examples directory in the Swift
-distribution. The examples are written in the SwiftScript language, and 
+distribution. The examples are written in the Swift scripting language, and 
 have .swift as a file extension.
 
-Execution of a Swift workflow is done using the swift command, which
-takes the Swift workflow file name as an argument:
+Execution of a Swift script is done using the swift command, which
+takes the Swift script file name as an argument:
 
 -----
 cd examples/tutorial
@@ -98,4 +98,4 @@
 Swift script!
 
 More documentation on how to run Swift can be found at 
-http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/docs/index.php,
+http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/docs/index.php

Modified: trunk/docs/userguide/commands
===================================================================
--- trunk/docs/userguide/commands	2013-02-18 00:39:03 UTC (rev 6286)
+++ trunk/docs/userguide/commands	2013-02-18 01:22:58 UTC (rev 6287)
@@ -74,6 +74,30 @@
     unique with respect to all other run IDs that might be used,
     irrespective of (at least) expected execution sites, program or user.
 
+-version
+
+    Display Swift version and exit
+
+-recompile
+
+      Forces Swift to re-compile the invoked Swift script. While Swift 
+      is meant to detect when recompilation is necessary, in some 
+      special cases it fails to do so. This flag helps with those 
+      special cases.
+
+-cdm.file
+     
+     Specifies a CDM policy file.
+
+-reduced.logging
+
+      Makes logging more terse by disabling provenance information and 
+      low-level task messages
+
+-minimal.logging
+
+      Makes logging much more terse: reports warnings only 
+
 -tui
 
     Displays an interactive text mode monitor during a run. (since Swift




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