Re: Starting external programmes from Octave

[Andy Buckle]

On 22 October 2012 12:14, Ossi Heinonen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 22.10.2012 13:55, Doug Stewart wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Ossi Heinonen <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi all
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>> 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.
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>> Best regards
>> Ossi
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> I really can't make anything new from that. system('C:/Program Files/ANSYS
> Inc/v140/Framework/bin/Win32/runwb2.exe') does exactly the same. I'm I using
> the command wrong and how should I use it?
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> - Ossi

[status output]=system("foo.exe");

the output variable now contains stdout from foo.exe.

If it is a GUI that you are starting, you might want to use async.

system("notepad",0,"async")

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