accessing USB equipment

[Benjamin Lindner]

Martijn wrote:
> Is it possible to access (USB) equipment, provided that I have the
> relevant dll and header files?
> Normally I work with octave on Linux, but I probably will only get a
> library that can be used on windows. Octave does require cygwin, so I
> wonder whether it is possible to compile dynamic loaded octave functions
> that call third party dll functions accessing usb equipment. Does
> anybody have experience?
> 

I have no particular experience with USB, but yes it is possible to 
create .oct files that rely on 3rd party dlls, there are in fact quite a 
lot such .oct files in octave's sources.

So you'd need to go ahead and try it.

benjamin