Re: Starting external programmes from Octave

[Ossi Heinonen]

On 22.10.2012 14:37, Andy Buckle wrote:
> On 22 October 2012 12:14, Ossi Heinonen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 22.10.2012 13:55, Doug Stewart wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Ossi Heinonen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 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
> > >
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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?
> >
> > - 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")
No luck. The [status output] method gives me the same outcome, it starts 
Ansys that doesn't work. And the output variable is empty, not that I 
need any output from Ansys, I just need to get it properly started and 
then run some scripts. The async argumenet didn't help either.

Are there other commands besides system/dos that could do the job?

- Ossi