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You can get the whole documentation of Coq in the tar file all-ps-docs.tar.

You can also get separately each document. The documentation of Coq
V6.3.1 is divided into the following documents :

     * Tutorial.ps: An introduction to the use of the Coq Proof Assistant;

     * Reference-Manual-base.ps:  215 pp., includes

     - the description of Gallina, the language of Coq
     - the description of the Vernacular, the commands of Coq
     - the description of each tactic
     - chapters about Grammar/Syntax extentions and Writing tactics
     - index on tactics, commands and error messages

     * Reference-Manual-addendum.ps, 75 pp., includes more detailed
      explanations and examples about the following topics:

     - the extended Cases (C.Cornes)
     - the Coercions (A. Saïbi)
     - the tactic Omega (P. Crégut)
     - printing proofs in natural language (Y. Coscoy)
     - the tactic Ring (S. Boutin and P. Loiseleur)
     - the Program tactic (C. Parent)
     - the Correctness tactic (J.-C. Filliâtre)
     - the extraction features (J.-C. Filliâtre)

     Index, page and chapter numbers are shared by the two documents, in
     order to make cross-references possible. There is also a on the ftp
     server a Postscript file Reference-Manual-all.ps that contains the two
     documents (base and addendum).

     * Library.ps: A description of the Coq standard library;

     * Changes.ps: A description of the differences between the
       versions V6.3 and V6.3.1;

     * rectypes.ps : A tutorial on recursive types by Eduardo Gimenez

Documentation is also available in the DVI format (you can get the DVI docs 
separately or in the tar file all-dvi.docs.tar).

The Reference Manual and the Tutorial are also available in HTML format 
(online at http://coq.inria.fr or by ftp in the file doc-html.tar.gz).