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)