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TideMan <mulgor@gmail.com> wrote in message <e57f029e-3bae-44e2-bea8-34769e903ae3@f38g2000pra.googlegroups.com>...
> On Jun 22, 4:37?pm, "Irvin " <ie...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I require to run 4 instances of matlab to communicate with 4 different devices. I can do this by creating multiple COM servers using the actxerver function. However I do not know how to get each matlab server to run its own m-file(s). ?Any advice/help on this would be great.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Irvin
> 
> AFAIK, you can just open a new Matlab and it will work OK and
> independent of the other open Matlabs.
> I've done it inadvertently and had no trouble.

I used to be able to run multiple instances of Matlab by just clicking on the start Matlab icon. Since getting 2009a this just returns me to the currently running window. Any idea why this changed or if I have got a setting wrong? Thanks.