Re: [Fwd: Texexec bug]

["Gregory D. Collins" <gcollins@cs.yale.edu>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 04:10 AM 11/5/2002 -0500, Gregory D. Collins wrote:
> 
>> The part which is causing the problem is the system() call, when we 
>> need to escape the "&" under sh, but not when using the Windows shell. 
>> So perhaps the following:
>>
>>     # If $SHELL contains "sh", it is probably UNIXish
>>     my $escapeshell = ($ENV{"SHELL"} =~ m/sh/i);
>>
>> ...
>>
>> # Then later, instead of:
>> unless ($dosish)
>>   { if ($TeXFormatFlag == "&") { $TeXFormatFlag = "\\&" }
>>     if ($MpFormatFlag  == "&") { $MpFormatFlag  = "\\&" } }
>>
>> # We do:
>> unless ($dosish && !$escapeshell)
>>   { if ($TeXFormatFlag == "&") { $TeXFormatFlag = "\\&" }
>>     if ($MpFormatFlag  == "&") { $MpFormatFlag  = "\\&" } }
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> 
> Did you test it? If it works we can do this (i don't have cygwin installed)

I just tested it, it works on my system.

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