Operating System Interface
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proc:command-line-arguments[args="none",result="vector"]

Returns a vector of strings: the arguments supplied to the program by
the user or the operating system.

proc:dump-heap[args="filename procedure",result="unspecified"]

Dump a heap image to the named file that will start up with the
supplied procedure. Before _procedure_ is called, command line
arguments will be parsed and any init procedures registered with 
<<add-init-procedure!>>  will be called.

_Note: Currently, heap dumping is only available with the
stop-and-copy collector (-stopcopy command line option), although the
heap image can be used with all the other collectors._

proc:dump-interactive-heap[args="filename",result="unspecified"]

Dump a heap image to the named file that will start up with the
standard read-eval-print loop. Before the read-eval-print loop is
called, command line arguments will be parsed and any init procedures
registered with <<add-init-procedure!>> 
will be called.

_Note: Currently, heap dumping is only available with the
stop-and-copy collector (-stopcopy command line option), although the
heap image can be used with all the other collectors._

proc:getenv[args="key",result="string or #f"]

Returns the operating system environment mapping for the string _key_,
or #f if there is no mapping for _key_.

proc:system[args="command",result="status"]

Send the _command_ to the operating system's command processor and
return the command's exit status, if any. On Unix, _command_ is a
string and _status_ is an exact integer.


