steve@steve-Satellite-L555D ~/Desktop $ gsi a b c
Gambit v4.6.7

> (command-line)
("./gsi")
>


From: Marc Feeley <feeley@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com>
Cc: Gambit List <Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [gambit-list] Running gambit program


On 2013-03-19, at 11:57 AM, Steve Graham <jsgrahamus@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Marc.  I don't see why I'm having these problems either.  It worked fine under Windows 7.
>
> steve@steve-Satellite-L555D ~/Desktop $ cat test.scm
> (display (+ 1 2))
> (exit)
>
> steve@steve-Satellite-L555D ~/Desktop $ gsi test.scm
> Gambit v4.6.7
>
> > ,q
> steve@steve-Satellite-L555D ~/Desktop $ gsi
> Gambit v4.6.7
>
> > (display (+ 1 2))
> 3> (exit)
> steve@steve-Satellite-L555D ~/Desktop $ gsi :d- test.scm
> Gambit v4.6.7
>
> > ,q
> steve@steve-Satellite-L555D ~/Desktop $
>
>

It appears that on this OS the command line arguments aren't available to gsi.  Can you try this:

% gsi a b c
...
> (command-line)

and report was is printed.

Marc