From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Dec 23 08:26:27 1997
Subject: Re: Reading environment variables
From: Martin Holz <holz at zib dot de>
To: "Robin M. Braun" <Robin dot Braun at eng dot uct dot ac dot za>
Cc: <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: 23 Dec 1997 15:24:25 +0100

"Robin M. Braun" <Robin dot Braun at eng dot uct dot ac dot za> writes:
> I am writing some Octave scripts to be used as cgi programs. I need to
> be able to read some cgi environment variable within Octave. How can
> this be done. Also, how can I execute an external program from Octave.

Try help on getenv,system and popen.

Merry Xmas
	Martin
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