[Help-smalltalk] Re: Newbie compile/usage question for 2.95a

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > #! @bindir@/gst -qgf
> >
> > header to browser/Run.st and install it as gst-blox?
>
> Is there a new `-f' option in GNU Smalltalk? I can't find it, so I can't
> check whether it would work.

It's been there since 2.3.

  gst -f FILE ARGS

is the same as

  gst FILE -a ARGS

In practice, "-a" is almost never used in practice.  It is used 
internally by Smalltalk images, which have "#! /usr/bin/env gst -aI" in 
their first line.

Paolo