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NAME

       gsi - Gambit-C 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 documents briefly the gsi and gsc commands.

       The  Gambit-C 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 to C compiler.  The interpreter provides  an
       interactive 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
       modules 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.

       In batch mode the command line arguments denote  files  to  be  loaded,
       REPL  interactions  to  start  (‘-’  option),  and  expressions  to  be
       evaluated (‘-e’ option).  Note that the ‘-’ and  ‘-e’  options  can  be
       interspersed  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
       expressions  with  the  ‘eval’  procedure  in  the  global  interaction
       environment.  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  0)
              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-C, available on-line at the
       Gambit-C Homepage.  Once package gambc-doc is installed, this 200+ page
       document  is available via the Info system (info gambit-c), in html via
       doc-base, or as files in /usr/share/doc/gambc (html, pdf, txt).

       The Debian package r5rs-doc  provides  the  Revised(5)  Report  on  the
       Algorithmic  Language  Scheme in several formats.  That document is the
       defining description of the programming language Scheme.

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

COPYRIGHT

       Gambit-C  is  Copyright  (C)  1994-2008  by  Marc  Feeley,  all  rights
       reserved.

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

       This manual page is
       Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Marc Feeley and Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
       Released under the same license as Gambit-C.

AUTHOR

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

       Homepage: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/