Re: Octave Web GUI

[etienne grossmann]

  Hello,

  for me, this works :

address@hidden: cat > dummy.m
a=[1:1:10]
b = sin (a)
gset term postscript
gset out  "dummy_plot.ps"
plot (a, b)

address@hidden: perl -e 'system("octave -H dummy.m > dummy_output")'

  The files dummy_output and dummy_plot.ps both are ok.

  Etienne

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From: Tom Weichmann <address@hidden@localnet.com>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Octave Web GUI


Hello,


I am developing a cgi web based GUI to Octave using PERL.  Things are going
great so far, and I plan on making the source public...of course.  It works
like this.  There is a dialog box, where you input your m-file, then click on
the button to submit.  The cgi PERL script opens and writes the m-file
to octave.  I then re-direct stdout to a file, and save any gnuplot output to
a file as well.  Then the PERL generates a the html for a web page which
includes the text and graphical output from octave, and sends this to the
browser.  I have accomplishes all of this, but no matter what I am doing in
my m-file, I get an error at the very end of the text output.  The following
is an example of a *very* simple m-file, and its output to the web.

input----------------
a=[1:1:10]
b=[10:-1:1]

output--------------

a =

   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10

b =

  10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1

error: Permission denied


I am invoking octave with the -H option, So the error is not caused by trying
to write the history file.  Does anyone have any idea what octave could be
trying to do just before it closes that the web process would not have
permission to do?

Thanks,



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