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GSI/GSC(1)			 User Commands			    GSI/GSC(1)

NAME
       gsi - Gambit Scheme Interpreter and Compiler

SYNOPSIS
       gsi [ -:arg,... ] [ -f ]	[ -v ] [[-] [ -e ] [ file ]]...
       gsc [options] [files]

       gsc-script,  gsi-script,	 scheme-ieee-1178-1990,	 scheme-r4rs,  scheme-
       srfi-0, six, and	six-script: currently synonyms for gsi.

       scheme-r5rs is registered in the	Debian alternatives system and can  be
       configured to point at gsi.

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page	briefly	documents the gsi and gsc commands.

       The  Gambit  programming	 system	is a full implementation of the	Scheme
       language	which conforms to the R4RS, R5RS, and IEEE  Scheme  standards.
       It  consists  of	two main programs: gsi,	the Gambit Scheme interpreter,
       and gsc,	the Gambit Scheme compiler.  The interpreter provides  an  in-
       teractive  environment  with a debugger,	while the compiler can produce
       stand-alone executables or modules which	can be linked or loaded	at run
       time.  Interpreted code and compiled code can be	freely mixed.  C  mod-
       ules can	be linked with Scheme modules.

       The  interpreter	is executed in interactive mode	when no	file or	`-' or
       `-e' option is given on the command line.  When at least	 one  file  or
       `-'  or	`-e'  option  is  present the interpreter is executed in batch
       mode.

       Entering	,q or (exit) at	the interpreter's command prompt will exit the
       interpreter.

       Entering	,? at the interpreter's	command	prompt will display a list  of
       special commands.

       In  batch  mode	the  command line arguments denote files to be loaded,
       REPL interactions to start (`-' option),	and expressions	to  be	evalu-
       ated  (`-e'  option).  Note that	the `-'	and `-e' options can be	inter-
       spersed with the	files on the  command  line  and  can  occur  multiple
       times.	The interpreter	processes the command line arguments from left
       to right, loading files with the	`load' procedure  and  evaluating  ex-
       pressions  with the `eval' procedure in the global interaction environ-
       ment.  After this processing the	interpreter exits.

       gsc-cc-o.bat is a script	called by gsc to generate object files	during
       compilation.   It  takes	its data from environment variables and	is not
       intended	for user interaction.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included	below.	For  a	complete  description,
       see the Info files.

       -      Initiate a REPL at this point. (Continue by issuing a ,c command
	      at the interpreter prompt)

       -:     Comma separated list of run-time options

       -e     Evaluate an expression.

       -f     Skip initialization file.

       -v     Show version of program.

SEE ALSO
       The documentation for these programs is arguably	too extensive to cover
       with  man  pages.  Only the common command line options are given here.
       The programs are	documented fully in Gambit, available on-line  at  the
       Gambit  Homepage.   Once	 package  gambdoc is installed,	this 200+ page
       document	is available via the Info system (info gambit),	 in  html  via
       doc-base, or as files in	/usr/share/doc/gambit (html, pdf, txt).

       dhelp(1), gcc(1), update-alternatives(8)

COPYRIGHT
       Gambit is Copyright (c) 1994-2015 by Marc Feeley, all rights reserved.

       Gambit is released under	a dual LGPL and	Apache 2 license.
       For further information refer to	/usr/share/doc/gambit/copyright.

       This manual page	is
       Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Marc Feeley and Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
       Released	under the same license as Gambit.

AUTHOR
       Gambit was written by Marc Feeley <gambit@iro.umontreal.ca>.

       Homepage: http://gambitscheme.org

4.4.3				 June 3, 2009			    GSI/GSC(1)

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