Re: How to detect for wich SO is an .oct file?

[Benjamin Lindner]

Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 30 June 2010 09:11, veryhappy <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > I meant from inside Octave but either way that won't work under windows
> > because it doesn't ship with anything similar to the file command.
> >     
>
> system("file foo.oct") under a GNU-based system. Or you could install
> file(1) on Windows.
>
>   
file is part of the minimal msys which is shipped with the octave 
windows installer.

> [a,o]=system(cstrcat("file ", file_in_loadpath ("fft.oct")))
a = 0
o = path\to\fft.oct: PE executable for MS Windows (DLL) (console) Intel 
80386 32-bit

You can also use objdump. A native win32 copy of objdump is also shipped 
with the windows octave installer (part of gcc/binutils)

> [a,o]=system(cstrcat("objdump -a ", file_in_loadpath ("fft.oct")))
a = 0
o = path\to\fft.oct:     file format pei-i386

benjamin