Re: [Axiom-developer] GCL in batch mode

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

| >
| > 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*)'

Interesting.  I tried that combination too; it did not work -- which
perplexed me.

-- Gaby