[texworks] Trouble with auto-pst-pdf

[Will Robertson]

On 27/11/2008, at 12:49 AM, Iwan Setyawan wrote:
> Does this help narrowing down the problem?
>

It helps confuse me further :(
This is the code in ifplatform that checks to see if shell-escape is  
activated:

\immediate\write18{echo \ip at win >"\ip at file"}
\IfFileExists{\ip at file}{\shellescapetrue}{\shellescapefalse\endinput}

If you write something similar, like this:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\immediate\write18{ echo 'hello' > "temp.txt" }
\IfFileExists{temp.txt}{Shell escape ON}{Shell escape OFF}
\end{document}

does that work, or not? (Still with the -shell-escape option in use,  
of course.) If it does work, then \shellescape should always be true  
and your problem shouldn't be occurring; if it doesn't work, then why  
not?!

Sorry this is taking so long :(
Will