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The MICRO-PLANNER System (PLNR) is essentially as described in the
original MICRO-PLANNER REFERENCE MANUAL as available from the MIT AI
Lab (Memo No. 203A). Portions of this manual, along with a good deal
of explanatory material, are available on-line as LSP:PLNR.MAN, which
is an alternate reference manual produced by Bruce Baumgart at
Stanford (SAILON No. 67).
When PLNR is started you are communicating with a top-level READ,
THVAL, PRINT loop. The "$" macro character is active, and since
repeated shifting is tough on the pinky, ":" may be used as an
alternative to "$". Thus :←X is equivalent to $←X is equivalent to
(THNV X). To make matters even easier, ::X is equivalent to $?X.
Note that THCONSE, THANTE, and THERASING may be used to define and
assert theorems, and THEDIT may be used to edit them. The
prettyprinter prints theorems correctly, and THSTATE may be used to
dump theorems to a file (by including it as an argument to a DSKOUT).
Finally, note that the THTRACE package as described in the MIT
documentation provides a powerful trace facility for PLNR.