[Ecls-list] Reducing Verbosity

[Mark Hoemmen]

On 5/23/07, Roy Zywina <roy.zywina at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a command line program that I would like to compile.  For a number of
> reasons (mostly LGPL) it has to be my main application plus a few .fas
> files.
>
> If my program contains a line like
> (load "somelib")
> It prints out something like
> ;;; Loading #P"/some/directory/somelib.fas"
>
> How can i prevent this line from being printed?

Try invoking ecl (or your executable name) as follows:

ecl -eval "(setf *load-verbose* nil)"

This tells the LOAD function not to print out "comment-type" messages
(i.e., those beginning with at least one semicolon) by default.  This
can be overwritten if you invoke LOAD explicitly in your code.

mfh