2.7 Starting Scheme from Microsoft Windows
The Microsoft Windows version of MIT/GNU Scheme runs as a
graphics-based application. Scheme is normally started using shortcuts;
the installer automatically generates several different predefined
shortcuts for your convenience.
The rest of this section gives some tips on how to set up shortcuts
that run Scheme. If you are unfamiliar with this concept you should
read about it in the system help.
- Under Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP, shortcuts can be
common or personal. When setting common shortcuts it is
important to make the shortcut properties independent of the vagaries
of the environment of the user who is running them.
- Give the shortcut an accurate Description.
- Include absolute pathnames to scheme.exe and
bchschem.exe in the shortcut Command line.
- If you specify the --library command-line option then you do
not have to worry about the MITSCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH environment
variable.
- Set the shortcut's Working Directory to something sensible. On
Windows NT/2000/XP you can use ‘%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%’ to make
Scheme start up in the user's home directory. On Windows 9x/ME you can
use ‘%HOME%’ to achieve the same effect, provided that you have
set the HOME environment variable as we recommend.
- There are several icons available in the Scheme executable—choose
one that best represents the options given on the command line.
- Specifying a band that contains Edwin is not sufficient to invoke the
editor. You also have to put --edit at the end of the command
line.