running .exe

[Ben Abbott]

On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:52 AM, 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.

Try

	system ("file.exe")

I assume that program is a unix executable, and not a MS Windows  
executable?

Ben