(* Copyright (C) 2005, HELM Team.
 * 
 * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
 * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
 * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
 * 
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 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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  (** {2 global initialization} *)
val initialize_all: unit -> unit

  (** {2 per-components initialization} *)
val parse_cmdline_and_configuration_file: unit -> unit
val initialize_environment: unit -> unit

  (** {2 Utilities} *)

  (** die nicely: exit with return code 1 printing usage error message *)
val die_usage: unit -> 'a

  (** add extra command line options *)
val add_cmdline_spec: (Arg.key * Arg.spec * Arg.doc) list -> unit