<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 January 2018 at 11:08, Enrico Gregorio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enrico.gregorio@gmail.com" target="_blank">enrico.gregorio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 26 Jan 2018, at 15:59 , Nelson H. F. Beebe <<a href="mailto:beebe@math.utah.edu" target="_blank">beebe@math.utah.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I tried your experiment with the file<br>
><br>
> % cat /var/tmp/noinput.tex<br>
> ---\input"|echo $(date)--<br>
> ---\input"|echo $(date)--<br>
> \bye<br>
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> and with both<br>
><br>
> xetex -shell-escape noinput<br>
<span class="m_-5339440617430243518gmail-">> xetex -shell-escape -no-pdf noinput && xdvipdfmx noinput<br>
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</span>> on my new TeX Live 2018 build on GNU/Linux (CentOS 7), I got expected<br>
> PDF files with output similar to this:<br>
><br>
> --Fri Jan 26 06:52:15 MST 2018 --<br>
> --Fri Jan 26 06:52:15 MST 2018 --<br>
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Yes, it seems a specific issue with MacTeX.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The bug is also present in the MacPorts version (<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;font-family:Monaco">Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017/MacPorts 2017_2)</span></div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I tried on a vanilla TeX Live on Fedora and on TeX Live/Debian 2016,<br>
the result is as expected in both cases.<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>also works: TeX Live 2017 and "<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;font-family:Monaco">TeX Live 2013/Debian" </span>on Ubuntu 14.04 </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-5339440617430243518gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>George N. White III<br><br></div></div></div>
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