I haven't tetex and texmf.cnf...
I have tried a lot of things since the last time. I have finally found that
when I uncomment the line "\runutilityfiletrue " in cont-sys.tex, it seems
to work!
What is exactly this line?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henning Hraban Ramm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Mpost disabled?
> Herv� Rouault schrieb:
> >-system(mpost -progname=mpost -mem=metafun glucose-mpgraph)...disabled.
> >Mpost seems to be disabled, where can I enable it?
>
> It's not Metapost, that is disabled, but 'system', that is, calling
> external programs.
> You can change this in texmf.cnf (at least on tetex):
>
> shell_escape = t % enable system commands via \write18{...}
>
> BTW: What means 18 in \write18?
>
> I don't really know, if this fixes the problem (is 'system' a Perl
> command? then there must be a restriction to Perl)
>
>
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