'Safe' version for the web?

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Mar-1998, Neal Holtz <address@hidden> wrote:

| My point (and I do have one): I would like a 'safe' version of octave
| that I could run from a web server - file i/o and system primitives
| and environment queries disabled; greatly reduced libraries; perhaps
| run in a chrooted environment; diagnostics when some functions such as
| plot(), input(), etc called.

You might want to check out Bill Schelter's <address@hidden>
web page at http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/netmath/netmath.html to
see what he's done to use Octave, Maxima, and Pari via the web.

jwe