fdscript(1)

NAME

fdscript - start an FDscript interpreter

SYNOPSIS

fdscript [--noprofile] [--noconfig] [--noherald] [-x charset ] [-m module ]* [-f file ]* [-g config_file ]* [ var = val ]* [ filename ] arguments ...

The module, file, config, and variable binding options may be intermixed and are processed from left to right before filename is loaded or the interactive interpreter is started.

DESCRIPTION

fdscript starts an fdscript interpreter either interactively or by reading commands from the file filename. The scheme variables args and nargs are bound to the specified arguments provided on the command line. The interpreter is interactive if either filename is not given or is either a single dash ("-") or a single dot ("."). In either case, the files or modules specified by the other options are processed first, as are any Scheme variable assignments specified on the command line.

If filename is provided and defines a Scheme procedure main, it is applied to the given arguments after filename has been read.

The additional arguments are interpreted with two special conventions. An argument specified by a single dollar sign ($) is bound to the entire standard input, read as a string; an argument specified by a single dash (-), reads a series of lisp objects from the standard input and binds the corresponding argument to those objects as a choice.

If filename is a single dash (-), the interactive read-eval-print loop will proceed without any prompts, simply reading values and printing results; if the argument is a single period ("."), a prompt will be displayed but command line arguments after the period will be processed into args Finally, if there is no filename argument, a prompt will be issued when the interpreter is ready for a result and (if available) the GNU readline commands will be available for input editing.

OPTIONS

--noconfig

Do not load the system configuration file

--noprofile

When running interactively, do not load the users .fdprofile file

--noherald

Do not output the FramerD library herald and copyright notice

-x charset

--charset charset

Use the character encoding charset as the default encoding, especially for interaction with the console (stdio and stderr).

-m module

Load the FDScript module module and have its exported symbols accessible to the interpreter environment.

-c config_file

--config=config_file

Load the config file config_file into the global environment. See fdconfig(2) for more details.

-f scheme-file

--file scheme-file

Load the scheme file scheme-file into the default environment

var=val

-Dvar=val

Bind the global variable var to val

FILES

framerd.cfg The system wide configuration file, in the common installation directory. See fdconfig(5) and fdconfig(1) for futher details ~/.fdprofile

ENVIRONMENT

ALWAYS_BUSY

Determines whether, in interactive mode with a prompt,

FRAMERD_CONFIG

Overrides the default location of the system configuration file

DEBUG_FRAMERD

Output a backtrace when an error occurs.

CONFIG VARIABLES

%DEBUG

Output a backtrace when an error occurs.

BUGS

None known.

Revision Info

$Id: fdscript.1,v 1.5 2002/07/10 00:13:11 haase Exp $

AUTHOR

Ken Haase < [email protected] >

SEE ALSO

framerd(7) dtcall(1)