libapl question

[Chris Moller]

    Being some combination of sadistic and masochistic,
      I'm trying to use the libapl library using the libapl.h API
      
      libapl.h says 
    
> /// Pass `command` to
>         the command processor and return its output.
>         extern const char * apl_command(const char *
>           command_utf8);
>     
    but when I do 
    
> const char *rc =
>         apl_command (")load workspace");
>     
    it dumps 
    
> SAVED 2020-12-30
>           17:18:13 (GMT-4)
>     
    to stdout and rc is empty.
    
    Am I doing something wrong, or am I trying to do something APL was
    never intended to do?  I'd like to be able to capture everything
    libapl says and not have it go to stdout/stderr.
    
    --cm