running ROOT in batch mode

Pasha Murat (murat@cdfsga.fnal.gov)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:36:24 -0600 (CST)

Hello rooters, I have a suggestion and would like to see if it also
seems reasonable to you:

- I'm running ROOT in embedded mode where main provided by the
reconstruction framework also handles the terminal input
- I need to run the executable in batch as well as in interactive mode;
- with MAIN handling the terminal input it is pretty cumbersome to pass
`- b' option to ROOT to switch off the initialization of ROOT's
GUI factory
- it would be quite useful in addition to `-b' command line option to have
an environmental variable (say ROOTBATCH or whatever) which, if defined,
would disable initialization of the GUI factory

Any opinions ? - regards, pasha