medley — starts up Medley Interlisp
medley [ flags ... ] [ SYSOUT_FILE ] [ -- PASS_ON_ARGS ]
Starts Medley Interlisp in a window.
MEDLEYDIR is an environment variable set by Medley and used by many of the options described below. MEDLEYDIR is the top level directory of the Medley installation that contains the specific medley script that is invoked after all symbolic links are resolved. In the standard global installation this will be /usr/local/interlisp/medley. But Medley can be installed in multiple places on any given machine and hence MEDLEYDIR is computed on each invocation of medley.
Prints out a brief summary of the flags and arguments to medley.
Show the man page for medley
Use FILE as the config file for this run of Medley. See information on CONFIG FILE below.
If the given value is “-”, then suppress the use of a config file for this run of Medley.
Start Medley from the standard “full” sysout. full.sysout includes a complete Interlisp and CommonLisp environment with a standard set of development tools. It does not include any of the applications built using Medley.
(See SYSOUT_FILE below for more information on starting sysouts.)
Start Medley from the standard “lisp” sysout. lisp.sysout only includes the basic Interlisp and CommonLisp environment.
(See SYSOUT_FILE below for more information on starting sysouts.)
Start Medley from the standard “apps” sysout. apps.sysout includes everything in full.sysout plus Medley applications including Notecards, Rooms and CLOS. It also includes pre-installed links to key Medley documentation.
(See SYSOUT_FILE below for more information on starting sysouts.)
Nullify any prior setting of the sysout file (e.g., from the config file) - causing Medley to start from the virtual memory file resulting from the previous invocation (with the same values for –id and –logindir), if any. If there is no matching virtual memory file, Medley will start from the full.sysout (see -f/–full above).
Equivalent to “-y -”.
(See SYSOUT FILE section below.)
Start Medley from the specified SYSOUT-FILE. This is an alternative to specifying the SYSOUT-FILE as the last argument on the command line (but before any PASS_ON_ARGS). It can be used to specify the SYSOUT-FILE in the config file (see information on CONFIG FILE below).
If the given value is “-”, then any prior setting of the sysout file (e.g., from the config file) is nullified (see -u/–continue above).
(See SYSOUT FILE section below.)
If value is “+” or no value, make the initial Exec window within Medley be an Interlisp Exec. If value is “-”, make the initial Exec window be the default XCL Exec.
This flag applies only when the –apps flag is used.
Medley ordinarily displays scroll bars to enable the user to pan the Medley virtual display within the Medley window. This is true even when the entire virtual display fits within the window.
Specifying “-n +” (–noscroll +) turns off scroll bars. Specifying “-n -” (–scroll -) turns on scroll bars. Specifying -n (–noscroll) with no value is equivalent to specifying “–noscroll +”.
Default is scroll bars off.
Note: If scroll bars are off and the virtual screen is larger than the window, there will be no way to pan to the non-visible parts of the virtual display.
Sets the size of the X Window (or VNC window) that Medley runs in to be Width x Height. (Full X Windows geomtery specification with +X+Y is not currently supported).
If a value of “-” is given, geometry is set to the default value.
If --geometry is not specified but --screensize is, then the window size will be determined based on the --screensize values and the --noscroll flag. If neither --geometry nor --screensize is provided, then the window size is set to 1440x900 if --noscroll is set and 1462x922 if --noscroll is not set.
(Also see note below under CONFIG FILE on the use of geometry and screensize in config files.)
Sets the size of the virtual display as seen from Medley’s point of view. The Medley window is an unscaled viewport onto this virtual display.
If a value of “-” is given, screensize is set to the default value.
If --screensize is not specified but --geometry is, then the virtual display size will be set so that the entire virtual display fits into the given window geometry. If neither --screensize nor --geometry is provided, then the screen size is set to 1440x900.
(Also see note below under CONFIG FILE on the use of geometry and screensize in config files.)
Sets the pixel scaling factor to N, an integer
If value of “-” is given, the pixel scale factor is set to its default of 1.
Use STRING as title of Medley window.
If STRING includes the character sequence “%i”, then the value of the id string (see –id flag below) prefixed by “::” will be substituited for the “%i”. Example: if the id is “run_45” and STRING is “Medley Interlisp %i”, then the actual window title will be “Medley Interlisp :: run_45”.
If the value of “-” is given, sets the title to its default value (“Medley Interlisp %i”).
This flag is ignored when when the --vnc flag is set.
Use X display :N.
If value is “-”, reset display to its default value. Default value is the value of $DISPLAY.
On platforms that support both SDL and X Windows, set the value of -d (–display) to “SDL” to select using SDL instead of X Windows.
This flag is ignored on the Windows/Cygwin platform and when the --vnc flag is set on Windows System for Linux.
If value is “+” or no value is given, then use a VNC window running on the Windows side instead of an X window. If value is “-”, then do not use a VNC window, relying instead on a standard X Window.
A VNC window will folllow the Windows desktop scaling setting allowing for much more usable Medley on high resolution displays. On WSL, X windows do not scale well.
This flag is always set for WSL1 installations.
Use ID_STRING as the id for this run of Medley, unless the given value is “-”, “--”, or “---”.
Only one instance of Medley can be run simultaneously for any given id.
ID-STRING can consist of any alphanumeric character plus the underscore (_) character, ending (optionally) in a “+” character. If ID_STRING ends with a “+” (including just a singleton “+”), then Medley will add a number to the id to make it unique among currently running Medley intsances.
If the given value is “-”, then the id will be (re)set to “default” (e.g., if it was previously set in the config file). If it is “--”, then id will be set to the basename of $MEDLEYDIR. If ID_STRING is “---”, then id will be set to the basename of the parent directory of $MEDLEYDIR.
Default id is “default”.
Set Medley to run in N MB of virtual memory. Defaults to 256MB.
If a value of “-” is given, resets to default value.
Use FILE as the Medley virtual memory (vmem) store. FILE must be writeable by the current user.
Care must be taken not to use the same vmem FILE for two instances of Medley running simultaneously. The --id flag will not protect against vmem collisions when the --vmem flag is used.
If the value “-” is given, then resets the vmem file to the default.
Default is to store the vmem in LOGINDIR/vmem/lisp_III.virtualmem, where III is the id of this Medley run (see --id flag above). See --logindir below for setting of LOGINDIR.
Use FILE as the Medley greetfile.
If the given value is “-”, Medley will start up without using a greetfile.
The default Medley greetfile is $MEDLEYDIR/greetfiles/MEDLEYDIR-INIT, except when the --apps flag is used in which case it is $MEDLEYDIR/greetfiles/APPS-INIT.
On Windows/Cygwin installations, FILE is specified in the Medley file system, not the host Windows file system.
Use DIR as LOGINDIR in Medley. DIR must be writeable by the current user.
LOGINDIR is used by Medley as the working directory on start-up and where it loads any “personal” initialization file from.
If the given value is “-”, then reset LOGINDIR to its default value. If the given value is “–”, uses $MEDLEYDIR/logindir as LOGINDIR.
LOGINDIR defaults to $HOME/il.
On Windows/Cygwin installations, FILE is specified in the Medley file system, not the host Windows file system.
Set the parameters for using Nethub XNS networking. Host is the full domain name of the nethub host. Port is the port on Host that nethub is using. Mac is the Mac address that this instance of Medley should use when contacting the nethub host. Debug is the level of nethub debug information that should be printed on stdout (value is 0, 1, or 2). A Host value is required and serves to turn nethub functionality on. Port, Mac and Debug parameters are optional and will default if left off.
If any of the parameters have a value of “-”, any previous setting (e.g., in a config file) for the parameter will be reset to the default value - which in the case of Host is the null string, turning nethub functionality off.
No fork. Relevant only to the Medley loadup workflow.
Use EXE as the basename of the Maiko executable. Relevant only to the Medley loadup workflow.
Use DIR as the directory containing the Maiko emulator. For testing purposes only.
The pathname of the file to use as a sysout for Medley to start from. If SYSOUT_FILE is not provided and none of the flags (--apps, --full, --lisp) is used, then Medley will start from the saved virtual memory file from the previous session with the same ID_STRING as this run. If no such virtual memory file exists, then Medley will start from the standard full.sysout (equivalent to specifying the --full flag). On Windows (Docker) installations, SYSOUT_FILE is specified in the Medley file system, not the host Windows file system.
All arguments after the “--” flag, are passed unaltered to the Maiko emulator.
A config file can be used to “pre-specify” any of the above command line arguments. The config file consists of command line arguments (flags or flag-value pairs), one per line. These arguments are read from the config file and prepended to the arguments actually given on the command line. Since later arguments override earlier arguments, any argument actually given on the command line will override a conflicting argument given in the config file.
Unless specified using the -c (–config) argument, the default config file will be $MEDLEYDIR/.medley_config, if it exists, and $HOME/.medley_config, otherwise.
Specifying, “-c -” or “–config -” on the command line will suppress the use of config files for the current run of Medley.
Note: care must be taken when using -g (–geometry) and/or -s (–screensize) arguments in config files. If only one of these is specified, then the other is conputed. But if both are specified, then the specified dimensions are used as given. Unexpected results can arise if one is specified in the config file but the other is specified on the command line. In this case, the two specified dimensions will be used as given. It will not be the case, as might be expected, that the dimension given in the config file will be overridden by a dimension computed from the dimension given on the command line.
Default Medley LOGINDIR
Default virtual memory file
Default personal init file
Default Medley greetfile
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