Re: Starting external programmes from Octave

[Andy Buckle]

>>> 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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>>>
>>> try
>>> help system
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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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

system has always worked for me. I am clutching at straws now.

system("cmd /c notepad",0,"async")

something like that will start another shell, which will then call
another program.

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