On 2013-03-01, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> The issue is that, as currently implemented, -b does not load the
> file. It basically makes standard input read from the file instead of
> the terminal.
I think that's a bug. It's an implementation detail that maxima -b
doesn't call batchload. Users couldn't know about that. There are two or
three options for loading files via command line options and all of them
should bind load_pathname.
best
Robert Dodier