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Scilab help >> Windows tools

Windows tools

  • MSDOS — Determines if it is the Windows version of scilab
  • chartooem — translates a string into the OEM-defined character set.(Windows only)
  • consolebox — show or hide console box (Windows)
  • createGUID — Creates a GUID (Windows only)
  • dos — shell (cmd) command execution (Windows only)
  • findfileassociation — Searches for and retrieves a file association-related string from the registry.(Windows only)
  • getsystemmetrics — Retrieves the specified system metric or system configuration setting. (Windows only)
  • istssession — Determines if scilab is launched from a ms terminal service session. (Windows only)
  • mcisendstring — sends a command string to an MCI device (Windows only).
  • oemtochar — translates a string from the OEM-defined character set into either an ANSI string. (Windows Only)
  • powershell — shell (powershell) command execution (Windows only)
  • win64 — Determine whether Windows x64 version of Scilab
  • winopen — Open file in appropriate application (Windows only)
  • winqueryreg — Get item from Microsoft Windows registry
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