RETRO

retro — a modern, pragmatic forth development system

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

RETRO is a modern, pragmatic Forth drawing influences from many sources. It's clean, elegant, tiny, and easy to grasp and adapt to various uses.

retro is the main interface for interacting with Retro. It provides both an interactive and a scripting model.

OPTIONS

-h

Display a help screen.

-i

Start Retro in interactive mode.

-s

Start Retro in interactive mode and suppress the startup message.

-v

Run in verbose mode, showing debugging information. Verbose output is written to /dev/stderr.

-t filename

Run any code and test blocks in the specified file.

-f filename

Run any code blocks in the specified file.

-p filename

Run the code in the specified file.

-u filename

Load and use the specified image file rather than the integral one.

-r filename

Load and run the code in the specified image file rather than the integral one.

filename script-args

Run code blocks in a single file. Pass script-args to the code being run.

If invoked with no arguments, retro will run in interactive mode.

AUTHORS

Charles Childers <crc@forthworks.com>