[XeTeX] \write18 in xetex

[Jonathan Kew]

On 12 Oct 2004, at 10:47 am, Michael Gedalin wrote:

> It seems to me that xetex does not support \write18 (--shell-escape). 
> The same simple test file
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> test
> \write18{ls -l}
>  \end{document}
>
> does what it is supposed to do when pdftex'ed and does not when 
> xetex'ed. Yet xetex --help says -shell-escape can be enabled.
>

You're right; it's supposed to be supported, but it's broken. Sorry. 
I'll fix it.

JK