[Axiom-developer] RE: capturing output strings

[Bill Page]

On May 22, 2005 12:35 AM Tim Daly wrote:

> ok, so who needs to pack? :-)

Ah, I thought so! :)

> Axiom's algebra gets output to a stream called
> |$algebraOutputStream| Thus you can get the output
> you want by:
>
> )set message autoload off
> )lisp (progn
>        (setq tmpout (make-string-output-stream))
>        (setq save |$algebraOutputStream|)
>        (setq |$algebraOutputStream| tmpout)
>        (|parseAndInterpret| "(x+1)^9")
>        (setq result (get-output-stream-string |$algebraOutputStream|))
>        (setq |$algebraOutputStream| save)
>        result)
>
>)lisp result
>
>result contains the output from axiom that you want.

Yes, excellent! It works also on Windows. That's exactly what
I wanted.

Now, I can sleep and you can pack... :)

Cheers,
Bill Page.