starting ACL trial version without windows?

David writes:
 > Is it possible to start the trial version of ACL
 > without it opening any windows?  I tried the
 > following, but it's still popping up lots of
 > windows:
 > 
 > allegro-ansi +B +c
 > 
 > (I would like to use ACL with Slime, but loading
 > Slime in ACL's "Debug Window" doesn't work, possibly
 > because it redirects all the standard I/O streams to
 > synonym streams.)
 > 
 > I am running on Windows 2000 with the ACL 6.2 trial version.

I think ACL on Windows comes with a program called build.exe which is
intended to act more like a console application.  For slime, you might
try setting inferior-lisp-program to build.exe.