Re: spawning a shell under octave

[LUK ShunTim]

Stephen Simpson wrote:

> 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?

Yes.

system("your_command")

Regards,
ST
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