* Can texexec enable write18 at runtime
@ 2005-11-24 19:40 David Arnold
2005-11-24 20:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-11-24 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
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From: David Arnold @ 2005-11-24 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
All,
In GWTeX, I could turn on write18 here:
% Enable \write18 (run shell processes from within TeX job)
% Set to t if needed
% (I think this might have security implications, especially if you
% run tex jobs as administrator, so I keep it turned off by default
shell_escape = f
But, because of security, I am wondering if I can leave this as is
and use texexec to enable write18 at runtime.
Is there a switch for this?
I know you can do it with pdflatex with:
pdflatex --shell-escape
David
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* Re: Can texexec enable write18 at runtime
2005-11-24 19:40 Can texexec enable write18 at runtime David Arnold
@ 2005-11-24 20:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-11-24 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2005-11-24 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Arnold wrote:
>
> But, because of security, I am wondering if I can leave this as is and
> use texexec to enable write18 at runtime.
>
> Is there a switch for this?
You can use --passon
texexec --passon='--shell-escape'
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* Re: Can texexec enable write18 at runtime
2005-11-24 19:40 Can texexec enable write18 at runtime David Arnold
2005-11-24 20:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2005-11-24 20:52 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-11-24 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Arnold wrote:
> All,
>
> In GWTeX, I could turn on write18 here:
>
> % Enable \write18 (run shell processes from within TeX job)
> % Set to t if needed
> % (I think this might have security implications, especially if you
> % run tex jobs as administrator, so I keep it turned off by default
> shell_escape = f
>
> But, because of security, I am wondering if I can leave this as is
> and use texexec to enable write18 at runtime.
>
> Is there a switch for this?
>
> I know you can do it with pdflatex with:
>
> pdflatex --shell-escape
>
the latest version of pdftex can determine if write18 is enables so we
can indeed make context/texexec a bit more clever; however, i'm always a
bit carefull with such things because i want to make sure that users run
recent binaries
Hans
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