On 2010-07-28 22:10:49 +0930, Florian Gilcher
<f...@andersground.net> said:
Actually, pdftex in both texlive 2009 and 2010 supports it.
The difference between MiKTeX and texlive is that MiKTeX has a special
CLI flag for it (--enable-pipes) while pdftex on texlive checks for
(--shell-escape).
Thanks for the info. It's been a couple of years since I used pipes. Is
this documented *anywhere*? Neither the pdftex nor the texlive
documentation seem to have anything on this topic.
Well: the problem with \write18: it is not quite the same (for example,
i cannot write to a pipe [1]), it clutters the file system
Since write18 is enabled anyway you can always "rm ..." or "del..."
your temporary file.
and I cannot read from any arbitrary source.
How so? (Not questioning, just curious. I've used write18 a bit and
haven't run into trouble yet.)
Will
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