Executing a system command

[jb]

I should like to execute the bash command

(cd prefix;latex file.tex;dvips file)

Can I do that with the os.system function? It seems I am having diffculties 
with that.

TIA,
-- 
Janos Blazii

"Il n'y a guère dans la vie qu'une préoccupation grave: c'est la mort;" 
(Dumas) 



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