chicken(1)

1CHICKEN(1)                  General Commands Manual                 CHICKEN(1)
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NAME

6       chicken - A Scheme-to-C translator
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SYNOPSIS

10       chicken PATHNAME [ OPTION ...  ]
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DESCRIPTION

14       CHICKEN  is  a  compiler  and  interpreter for the programming language
15       Scheme supporting most of the features as described  in  the  Revised^5
16       Report  on  the  Algorithmic Language Scheme The chicken program is the
17       basic Scheme-to-C translator used in this system.  For  a  more  conve‐
18       nient interface, see the manual page for csc(1).
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OPTIONS

22       Enter chicken -help for a list of supported command-line options.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

26       CHICKEN_PREFIX
27              Is  used  as a prefix directory for support files, include-files
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32              Contains one or more pathnames where the compiler  should  addi‐
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37              Holds  a string of default compiler options that should apply to
38              every invocation of chicken
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DOCUMENTATION

42       More information can be found in the CHICKEN User's Manual
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AUTHORS

46       The CHICKEN Team.
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