Re: 3.8 Bug Fix update

[Thorsten Liebig]

Am 07.11.2013 22:33, schrieb John W. Eaton:
> On 11/07/2013 03:27 AM, Thorsten Liebig wrote:
>> Am 06.11.2013 22:10, schrieb John W. Eaton:
>>> On 11/06/2013 04:06 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am I missing something or isn't the issue there that Ctrl-C does work in
>>>> most cases, but doesn't work when Octave is inside a call to the sleep
>>>> function? And that is only happening on Windows, correct?
>> Actually it always happened on Linux and at some time (month ago) I believe 
>> it worked fine on Windows...
>>
>> It is of course not only about sleeping, I run numeric simulations using 
>> Octave as an interface to an external software (http://openEMS.de).
>> But if the simulation is running, I cannot abort it using CTRL+C if I need 
>> to.  Thus the GUI is currently unusable for me and the users of this
>> numeric tool.
>
> How is the external software called from Octave?
>
> jwe
>
>

Somthing like this:

system('/opt/bin/openEMS.sh  file_to_simulate.xml');

And the xml-file was written with the Octave interface...

Why?

Thorsten