Re: running .exe

[Bob Odom]

Usually .exe files are Windows executables, so if you are running Ubuntu
Linux it will probably not run at all. Linux does not require you to
assign a specific suffix to a file to indicate whether it is an
executable. However if you created an executable on your Ubuntu sysyem,
and appended the .exe suffix out of habit or convenience then you can
run it from within octave using the "system" function. You can uses
system(} like this:
[s,w]=system( [ filedir '/file.exe < ' fname '.env >& ' fname '.prt'
] );

filedir is the location of your .exe file.
fname.env is the input file for your program and fname.prt is the output
file.

Bob


On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Eduardo J. Adam wrote:

> Dear friends,
> I need to run a program ".exe" and I working with octave under ubuntu 8.10.
> On the other hand, Matlab (under windows) run "file.exe" just only writing,
> !file.exe
>
> How can I do that using octave?
> Is there something similar?
>
> I was thinking that octave call wine and wine execute file.exe ...., but
> honestly, I don't know how to do that.
>
> thanks
>
> Eduardo.
>
>
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