[scilab-Users] Multi-task and dos('start /b prog')

[Mathieu Dubois]

Hello,

As Alan Told you on the equalis forum it's hard to do what you want to do...

Does the output of your program depends on previous Scilab instructions 
(for instance do you compute parameters in Scilab that you pass to your 
program)?

If no, you can launch your program one for all, put the result in a file 
and read it from Scilab.

If your are doing something more complex, you can try to use the 
parallel_run in the upcoming 5.3 (I have never used it).

HTH,
Mathieu

Le 03/12/2010 08:05, Yann Laurant a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to call a program from Scilab (esay with the dos function),
> but as this program is very long, I want to continue to use scilab
> during its execution.
> The program is launch from an interface, so I don't want to launch
> another scilab session.
> With MS-DOS, the command "start /b" seems to be able to launch a command
> line in background (just as the & in unix system). But if I'm using this
> command : dos('start /b command_line'), I am able to continue to use
> scilab, but just a few second because scilab is becoming unstable and
> close after a while.
>
> Do you know if there is other solution for having some multi task in
> Scilab ?
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Yann LAURANT