spawning a shell under octave

[Stephen Simpson]

Hi all,

I have successfully installed Octave 2.1.42 under Windows 2000.  I'd like 
to use the epsTk library in conjunction with Ghostscript 8.1, and Adobe 
acrobat reader to view plots.

I've written a batch file to take the ".eps" outputs from the epsTk 
library, convert them to pdf using ghostscript, and load the resulting pdf 
into acrobat reader...  However, it's many years since i've used matlab / 
octave and i can't remember if it's possible to spawn an external shell 
from an m script.

Any ideas whether it's (a) possible and (b) how to do it?

regards,


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