running .exe

[Eduardo J. Adam]

Thanks to everyone for your help.
Let me say you something,
1. Unfortunately, file.exe is a MS Windows file,
2. But, with the command

   system("wine file.exe")

the program works perfectly.

Thanks and happy new year.

Eduardo.




>
> 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
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