[texhax] \write18 syntax

[Joel C. Salomon]

Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> Perhaps I'm being too simplistic, but isn't the comment symbol "%" at
> the beginning of the line the sole reason that the command does not run  ?

No; this is part of the documentation in a .dtx package.

The reason the \write18 wasn't happening was almost as simple as that,
though: they had been wrapped in an \iffalse-\fi pair!

--Joel