using listen to receive commands

[Corbin Champion]

Using the listen command is trival enough to start octave listening of a 
particular port, but does someone have an example, or some help of how to 
communicate with it after that point (ie send an arbitrary command and get 
the text response).  I would like to do this from...
a) perl or some other scripting language
b) from another process of octave running
both are intersting to me.  a) is what I would like to get working, while b) 
is interesting because I am wondering what functions aleady exist for this 
within octave.
Any help would be great!
Corbin




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