scsh-0.5/scsh.man

.TH LSCSH 1
.\" File scsh.man:  Manual page template for scsh.
.\" Replace LSCSH with the name of your default image and LLIB with the
.\" directory containing scshvm and default image.
.SH NAME
LSCSH \- a Scheme shell

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B LSCSH
[switch arg1 ... argn]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B LSCSH
is an implementation of the Scheme shell.
It is implemented as
a heap image which is interpreted by a modified version of
the Scheme 48 virtual machine.
.B LSCSH
is a stub program that starts the virtual machine on the scsh heap image.
.PP
The
.B LSCSH
command loop reads Scheme expressions, 
evaluates them, and prints their results.
The Scheme 48 system is an R5RS system.
It also executes commands, which are identified by an initial comma character.
Type the command
.I ,help
to receive a list of available commands, or see the documentation for
Scheme 48.
.PP
Scsh's
.I switch
argument can be one of
.LP
.B \-s
.BI script
.LP
.B \-\-
.LP
Either of these switches terminates argument parsing; following arguments
are available from scsh as the string list produced by
.nf
    (command-line)
.fi
The
.B \-s
.BI script
switch causes scsh to run in batch mode,
first loading the script and then exiting.
The default error exception handler terminates the process.

If the
.B \-s
switch is not specified, scsh operates in interactive mode.
It invokes the Scheme 48 top-level read-eval-print loop,
from which the user can enter forms to be evaluated.
In interactive mode, the default error handler invokes an interactive
debugging breakpoint.

The
.B \-\-
switch is used to pass arguments to an interactive scsh.
It simply terminates argument parsing, causing following
arguments to be made available by
.nf
    (command-line)

There are other command-line switches. For detailed documentation,
see the manual, which comes with the distribution.

.SH FILES
.TP
.B LLIB/doc/
The detailed documentation for scsh.

.TP
.B LLIB/scshvm
the virtual machine.
.TP
.B LLIB/LSCSH.image
the default image.
.SH BUGS
Too big; starts up too slowly.