The windows package is part of the Octave Forge project and provides a COM interface and additional functionality on Windows

Installation

package requirements

This package requires Octave 3.6 or later.

The package may already be installed if you are using the mxe-octave based installation of windows.

To verify, from octave commmand line:

>> pkg install list windows

To install from octave commmand line:

>> pkg install -forge windows

Load it before any usage:

>> pkg load windows

This example uses the com interface to display the current directory.

 wshell = actxserver ("WScript.Shell");
 wshell.CurrentDirectory

Documentation and reference for the Windows package is available on Octave forge