Hi, is there any way (through some IDL settings or environment variables) to execute the .run or .compile commands in "silent mode", that is, without printing out all those "Compiled module" messages as in the example below? IDL> .run read_ascii % Compiled module: RA_PARSE_COLUMN_VALUES. % Compiled module: RA_PARSE_DELIM_VALUES. % Compiled module: RA_GET_NEXT_RECORD. % Compiled module: RA_READ_FROM_TEMPL. % Compiled module: RA_VALID_TEMPLATE. % Compiled module: RA_STRINGIT. % Compiled module: RA_GUESS_COLUMNS. % Compiled module: RA_CHECK_FILE. % Compiled module: READ_ASCII_CREATE_STRUCT. % Compiled module: READ_ASCII. The reason I'm asking is that I have a number of shell scripts that in turn call IDL programs (passing them the appropriate parameters), and 90% of the log file generated by my scripts is made up of these "compiled module" lines. I know I could remove them afterwards, but if it were possible to omit them in first place ... Many thanks Nicola