On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Jonas Stein wrote:
You need to either enable write18 or add \runMPgraphicsfalse on the top of your file.
I put \runMPgraphicsfalse in the first line of test.tex. That changed nothing.
Do you have the metapost executable and format. Does a minimal metapost file work.
Then i searched for write18 in the wiki. I found "ConTeXt defines \systemcommandmode that is 2 if \write18 is enabled, 1 otherwise. " on [1]
so i wrote \systemcommandmode to get a 2 or 1 in textbody. [2] But i did not get a 1 or 2. Now i can see the circle and a "^" I have no idea, where the ^ comes from.
I think that this information needs to be added to the texlive installation page on the wiki.
in the year 2006 someone wrote [3]: """ Hans response on the mailing list write 18 is a hack and pdfshellescape a sane replacement in luatex it will probably be gone completely since there we have \directlua 0 { os.execute("...") } """
I wonder if write18 is necessary 5 years later.
You need to use MkIV to get the new features :) Aditya