Re: [Axiom-developer] GCL in batch mode

[Waldek Hebisch]

> 
> Camm --
> 
>   I'm wondering what the behaviour of "gcl -batch" is.  The info page
> says:
> 
>    `-batch'
>         Do not enter the command print loop.  Useful if the other command
>         line arguments do something.  Do not print the License and
>         acknowledgement information.  Note if your program does print any
>         License information, it must print the GCL header information
>         also.
> 
> 

AFAICS "not enter the command print loop" really means "do not enter
read-eval-print loop", so in particular nothing is read from standard
input.  For me the following works:

gcl -batch -eval '(format t "~a~&" si::*system-directory*)'

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