running .exe

[Eduardo J. Adam]

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.