Manual pages are part of the ecFlow script.(i.e. .ecf or .py, etc). This is to ensure that the manual page is updated when the script is updated. The manual page is a very important operational tool allowing you to view a description of a task, its importance, task dependencies and possibly describing solutions to common problems. The ecFlow pre-processor can be used to extract the manual page from the script file to be viewed by the GUI. The manual page is the text contained within the %manual and %end tags. They can be seen using the manual tab in the info panel in ecflow_ui.
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