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    <title>Introduction</title>
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  <section>
    <title>About This Document</title>
    <p>The SASL (System Architecture Support Libraries) 
       application provides support for:</p>
    <list type="bulleted">
      <item>error logging</item>
      <item>alarm handling</item>
      <item>overload regulation</item>
      <item>release handling</item>
      <item>report browsing.</item>
    </list>
    <p>In this document, "SASL Error Logging" describes the error
      handler which produces the supervisor, progress, and crash
      reports which can be written to screen, or to a specified file.
      It also describes the report browser <c>rb</c>.</p>
    <p>The chapters about release structure and release handling have
      been moved to <em>OTP Design Principles</em>.</p>
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