Does TeX/TeXLive call system() ?

[Aaron Gray]

Karl & Norbert,

Thanks, this is what I was after, but will also have to look at the source.

Aaron

On Wed, 11 May 2022 at 22:51, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>
>     Does TeX/TexLine call the system() system call and if it does what
>     does it do with it ?
>
> Norbert's reply is definitive :), but in case a little user-level
> description is of use:
> https://tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html#Shell-escapes



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