IKARUS(1)						      General Commands Manual							 IKARUS(1)

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 initial-
       ized.   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/~aghu-
       loum/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)