DrScheme (from Rice University) is a very complete implementation of Scheme, along with a rich set of debugging tools and extensions. See the DrScheme home page at Rice for more info.
All of the ports of DrScheme look and act the same. You will need to install and configure it for the platform you will use. The simplest way to use DrScheme at UW is to use the version already installed and configured for departmental Sparc/Solaris machines.
We have installed DrScheme (for Sparc Solaris) in:
/u/f/i/fischer/public/drscheme/plt/bin/drscheme.You can use it by typing the complete path shown above.
Alternatively, you can add /u/f/i/fischer/public/drscheme/plt/bin to your search path definition in your ~/.cshrc.local file. Then you need only enter drscheme to start DrScheme.
You may also create an alias for DrScheme by adding
alias newname /u/f/i/fischer/public/drscheme/plt/bin/drschemeto your ~/.cshrc.local file. Then you just need to type newname (which can be any reasonable name you choose) to activate DrScheme. You may also add a symbolic link to DrScheme via the command
ln -s /u/f/i/fischer/public/drscheme/plt/bin/drscheme ~/binto place a link to DrScheme in your personal bin directory. Then you can activate DrScheme by typing drscheme.
Note that you need do only one of these (modify your search path, or create an alias or create a symbolic link) to simplify access to DrScheme (Unix provides many ways to access a program).
If you want to use DrScheme on a different platform, you will have to download your own copy and install it. All of the ports of DrScheme work identically, so the programs and the results will be the same no matter where you run DrScheme. To download DrScheme, go to http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/drscheme/download.html .
Updated Tue Jan 18 12:05:28 CST 2000