From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5298 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Rouault?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Mpost disabled? Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:52:27 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <002e01c1296e$95ea82c0$0100a8c0@mshome.net> References: <20010820124014.514%65696@smtp.puretec.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395895 431 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: "Group Context" , "Henning Hraban Ramm" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5298 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5298 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" To: Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:40 PM Subject: Re: Mpost disabled? > Hervé 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) > > > -- > Grüßlis vom Hraban! > --- > http://www.fiee.net/ (Formelsammlung) > http://www.angerweit.de/ (Musik) > http://www.ramm.ch/ (Privates) >