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@@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ The modules that ship with Scryer Prolog are also called
   `time/1` reports the CPU time of a goal. It is useful
   for measuring the performance of your code.
 
+To read contents of external files, use `phrase_from_file/2` from
+[`library(pio)`](src/prolog/lib/pio.pl) to apply a DCG to
+file contents. The predicates in
+[`library(charsio)`](src/prolog/lib/charsio.pl) are also useful for
+parsing.
+
 To use predicates provided by the `lists` library, write:
 
 ```