Starting external programmes from Octave

[Ossi Heinonen]

Hi all

I need to open an external program from Octave. The program that I'm 
trying to open is a FEA software Ansys Workbech. I've done this in 
Matlab using the dos command like this and it works just fine:
dos('C:/Program Files/ANSYS Inc/v140/Framework/bin/Win32/runwb2.exe')
When I do the same in Octave I do get Ansys started but I also get an 
error right away and the program doesn't function properly and I can't 
run any analyses in it. I also noticed that I couldn't start Mathcad 
properly either whereas e.g. Matlab and Firefox started ok.
Any ideas how this could be fixed? I'm running Octave 3.6.1_gcc4.6.2 on 
Win xp 32bit.

Best regards
Ossi