NAME

       ikarus - Scheme Programming Language

SYNOPSIS

       ikarus -h
       ikarus [-b bootfile] --r6rs-script scriptfile [opts]
       ikarus [-b bootfile] [files] [opts]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ikarus command starts the Ikarus Scheme system.  Invoking ikarus without options enters a read-eval-
       print loop.

OPTIONS

       -h     Prints help message then exits.

       [-b <bootfile>] --r6rs-script <scriptfile> opts ...
              Starts ikarus in r6rs-script mode.  The script file is treated as  an  R6RS-script.   The  options
              opts ... can be obtained using the "command-line" procedure in the (rnrs programs) library.

       [-b <bootfile>] <file> ... [-- opts ...]
              Starts  ikarus  in  interactive  mode.   Each  of  the  files is first loaded into the interaction
              environment before the interactive repl is started.  The options opts can be  obtained  using  the
              "command-line" procedure.

       If  the  option  [-b <bootfile>] is provided, the bootfile is used as the system's initial boot file from
       which the environment is initialized.  If the -b option is not supplied, the default boot file  is  used.
       The  current  default  boot  file  location  is "/usr/lib/ikarus/ikarus.boot".  Consult the Ikarus Scheme
       User's Guide for more details.

FILES

       /usr/lib/ikarus/ikarus.boot

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       none

SEE ALSO

       The wrapper scheme-script(1) is useful for writing Scheme scripts that use ikarus.

       Further  documentation  is  available  in  /usr/share/doc/ikarus/ikarus-scheme-users-guide.pdf   and   at
       http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus/.

AUTHOR

       ikarus was written by Abdulaziz Ghuloum.

       This manual page was written by Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> while packaging ikarus for Debian.

                                                November 27, 2007                                      IKARUS(1)