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-h

Displays a help message on how to use clisp.

-m memsize

Sets the amount of memory clisp tries to grab on startup. The amount may be given as nnnnnnn (measured in bytes), nnnn K or nnnn KB (measured in kilobytes) or n M or n MB (measured in megabytes). #ifdef WIDE Default is 4 megabytes. #else Default is 2 megabytes. #endif #if (oint_addr_len+addr_shift==24) The argument is constrained between 100 KB and 16 MB. #elif (oint_addr_len+addr_shift==26) The argument is constrained between 100 KB and 64 MB. #elif (oint_addr_len+addr_shift==28) The argument is constrained between 100 KB and 256 MB. #else The argument is constrained above 100 KB. #endif -- This version of clisp #if defined(SPVW_MIXED) && defined(SPVW_BLOCKS) #ifdef GENERATIONAL_GC is not likely to actually use the entire memsize since garbage collection will periodically reduce the amount of used memory. It is therefore common to specify 10 MB even if only 2 MB are going to be used. #else eventually uses the entire memsize. #endif #else allocates memory dynamically. memsize is essentially ignored. #endif #ifndef WIDE Nevertheless, the memory size is limited to 16 MB per Lisp type (cons, string, structure, etc.), unless the -W option is given. #endif

#ifndef NO_SP_MALLOC

-s stacksize

Sets the size of the stack clisp allocates for itself. The syntax is the same as for memsize. Default is one eighth of memsize. The argument is constrained between 40 KB and 8 MB.

#endif #ifdef MULTIMAP_MEMORY_VIA_FILE

-t tempdir

Specifies the directory where the temporary core file is to be held. This option takes precedence over the environment variable TMPDIR.

#endif

-W

Specifies to call the wide-mode version of clisp. It uses a 64-bit object representation instead of the usual 32-bit representation. This version of clisp is slower, but has no memory size limitations. #ifdef WIDE_HARD -- This flag is not needed on this architecture. #endif

-M memfile

Specifies the initial memory image. This must be a memory dump produced by the saveinitmem function. #ifdef UNIX It may have been compressed using GNU gzip. memfile may have the syntax memfile32:memfile64 thus denoting two separate memory images, one for use without and one for use with the -W option. This option is normally already set by the driver program /usr/local/bin/clisp. #endif

-L language

Specifies the language clisp uses to communicate with the user. This may be #ifndef GNU_GETTEXT english, deutsch, francais. #endif #ifdef GNU_GETTEXT english, deutsch, francais, espanol. Other languages may be specified through the environment variable LANG, provided the corresponding message catalog is installed. #endif

-N localedir

Specifies the base directory of locale files. clisp will search its message catalogs in localedir/language/LC_MESSAGES/clisp.ext.

-q

Quiet: clisp displays no banner at startup and no good-bye message when quitting.

-I

ILISP friendly: clisp interacts in a way that ILISP (a popular Emacs LISP interface) can deal with. Currently the only effect of this is that unnecessary prompts are not suppressed. #ifdef GNU_READLINE Furthermore, the GNU readline library treats Tab as a normal self-inserting character. #endif

-C

Compile when load: At startup the value of the variable *load-compiling* will be set to t. Code being loaded will then be compiled on the fly. This results in slower loading, but faster execution.

-i initfile ...

Specifies initialization files to be loaded at startup. These should be lisp files (source or compiled).

-c lispfile ...

Compiles the specified lispfiles to bytecode. The compiled files can then be loaded instead of the sources to gain efficiency.

-o outputfile

Specifies the output file or directory for the compilation of the last specified lispfile.

-l

A bytecode listing of the files being compiled will be produced. Useful only for debugging purposes.

-p packagename

At startup the value of the variable *package* will be set to the package named packagename.

-x expressions

Executes a series of arbitrary expressions instead of a read-eval-print loop. The values of the expressions will be output to standard output. Due to the argument processing done by the shell, the expressions must be enclosed in double quotes, and double quotes and backslashes must be preceded by backslashes.

lispfile [ argument ... ]

Loads and executes a lispfile. There will be no read-eval-print loop. Before lispfile is loaded, the variable *args* will be bound to a list of strings, representing the arguments. #ifdef UNIX The first line of lispfile may start with #!, thus permitting clisp to be used as a script interpreter. #endif If lispfile is -, the standard input is used instead of a file. This option must be the last one.

#ifdef EMUNIX

@optionfile

substitutes the contents of optionfile as arguments. Each line of optionfile is treated as a separate argument to clisp.

#endif

WINDOW=windowspec

clisp will communicate with the console window or pipe specified by windowspec.

ARGS=arguments

Specifies the command line arguments for clisp. Within arguments the token * may be used to denote the project's filename. arguments defaults to -i * which means that the file will be loaded (see above).

Guy L. Steele Jr.: Common Lisp - The Language. Digital Press. 1st edition 1984, 465 pages. ("CLtL1" for short)

Guy L. Steele Jr.: Common Lisp - The Language. Digital Press. 2nd edition 1990, 1032 pages. ("CLtL2" for short)

help

to get some on-line help.

(apropos name)

lists the symbols relating to name.

(exit) or (quit) or (bye)

to quit clisp.

#if defined(UNIX) || defined(MSDOS) || defined(AMIGAOS) || defined(RISCOS)

#if (defined(UNIX) && !defined(UNIX_CYGWIN32)) || defined(RISCOS) EOF (Ctrl-D) #endif #if defined(MSDOS) || defined(UNIX_CYGWIN32) EOF (Ctrl-Z) #endif #ifdef AMIGAOS EOF (Ctrl-\e) #endif

to leave the current read-eval-print loop.

#endif #ifdef GNU_READLINE

arrow keys

for editing and viewing the input history.

Tab key

to complete the symbol's name you are just typing.

#endif

#ifdef UNIX

clisp

startup script

#endif

#if defined(UNIX) lisp.run #endif #if defined(MSDOS) lisp.exe #endif #if defined(AMIGAOS) lisp.run #endif #if defined(RISCOS) lisp #endif

main executable

lispinit.mem

initial memory image

config.lsp

site-dependent configuration

*.lsp

lisp source

*.fas

lisp code, compiled by clisp

*.lib

lisp source library information, generated and used by the clisp compiler

*.c

C code, compiled from lisp source by clisp