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At 15:49 10/07/2003 +0200, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:57:25PM +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote:
On 2003-07-10 14:35:48 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
- New readonly primitive \pdfshellescape which can be used to test if the
Thinking further (and being reminded by Rolf): Is there a reason why this can _not_ be called \shellescape? It's got nothing to do with pdf (and would be usefull in all web2c-based TeX engines, no matter what they are called).
\write18 is a property of web2c-based TeX engines, so \shellescape is the better name and it would be even better, if this can be added to the other web2c-based TeX engines, too.
i have problems with the not that name compatible: \shellescape \write18 so if a dedicated name would be used, we would either have something: \shellescape{some command} \shellescapemode == number or (considering it a channel) \write18 \ifeof18 Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------