CHECKPROOF(1) User Commands CHECKPROOF(1) NAME checkproof - manual page for checkproof 2.6 SYNOPSIS checkproof [options] [files] DESCRIPTION checkproof 2.6 Read an UPCL2 protocol and verify the inferences using one of a varity of external provers. This is a _very_ experimental program. Passing checkproof does indicate that all inferences in an UPCL2 protocol are correct (i.e. that the conclu- sion is logically implied by the premisses) - that is, if you believe that the transformation process and the used prover are correct. However, check- proof will e.g. gladly show that the empty proof protocol does not contain any buggy steps. If a proof protocol fails to pass this test, the proof may still be cor- rect. Due to e.g. incomplete strategies (this applies in particular to Ot- ter), build-in limits (Otter), and bugs in the prover (potentially all sys- tems, but observed in SPASS 0.55), a prover might fail to verify a correct step. Moreover, due to the different strategies, calculi, and in particular different term orderings chosen by the systems, a single UPCL2 inference may result in a proof problem that is very hard to verify for other provers. However, if a proof step is rejected by more than one system, you should probably look at this step in detail. Options -h --help Print a short description of program usage and options. --version Print the version number of the program. -v --verbose[=<arg>] Verbose comments on the progress of the program. The short form or the long form without the optional argument is equivalent to --ver- bose=1. -o <arg> --output-file=<arg> Redirect output into the named file. -s --silent Equivalent to --output-level=0. -l <arg> --output-level=<arg> Select an output level, greater values imply more verbose output. At the moment, level 0 only prints the result, level 1 prints inference steps as they are verified, level 2 prints prover commands issued, and level 3 prints all prover output (which may be very little) -p <arg> --prover-type=<arg> Set the type of the prover to use for proof verification. Determines problem syntax, options, and check for success. Supported options at are 'E' (the default),'Otter' 'SPASS', and 'scheme-setheo' (not yet implemented). SPASS support is only tested with SPASS 0.55 and may fail if the problem contains identifiers reserved by SPASS. There have been some supple syntax changes, so more recent SPASS versions will probably fail as well. -x <arg> --executable=<arg> Give the name under which the prover can be called. If no executable is given, checkproof will guess a name based on the type of the prover. This guess may be way off! -t <arg> --prover-cpu-limit=<arg> Limit the CPU time prover may spend on a single step. Default is 10 seconds. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to <schulz@eprover.org>. Please include the following, if pos- sible: * The version of the package as reported by eprover --version. * The operating system and version. * The exact command line that leads to the unexpected behaviour. * A description of what you expected and what actually happend. * If possible all input files necessary to reproduce the bug. COPYRIGHT Copyright 1998-2021 by Stephan Schulz, schulz@eprover.org, and the E con- tributors (see DOC/CONTRIBUTORS). This program is a part of the distribution of the equational theorem prover E. You can find the latest version of the E distribution as well as addi- tional information at http://www.eprover.org This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un- der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FIT- NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (it should be contained in the top level directory of the distribution in the file COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foun- dation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA The original copyright holder can be contacted via email or as Stephan Schulz DHBW Stuttgart Fakultaet Technik Informatik Rotebuehlplatz 41 70178 Stuttgart Germany checkproof 2.6 August 2026 CHECKPROOF(1)
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