Hi Thanh,

After some tries I found that that when shell_escape is set to 'f' then there is a problem with the new version but not with the old version. However when it is set to 't' then the problem went away in both versions.

Please test by applying (temporarily) the following patch to tex.ch: Thanks Akira --- tex.ch.orig Sat Aug 13 20:47:02 2005 +++ tex.ch Fri Sep 02 09:26:13 2005 @@ -4967,7 +4967,7 @@ end; pool_ptr:=str_start[str_ptr]; {erase the string} end - else begin print("disabled"); + else begin print("disabled"); pool_ptr:=str_start[str_ptr]; end; print_char("."); print_nl(""); print_ln; end;