Re: open socket with listen() and still have command line available?

[John Swensen]

Brian W. wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a question about the listen(port,...) function as described by 'help
> listen' or at
> http://octave.cvs.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-forge/main/miscellaneous/doc/listen.txt?view=markup
> .
>
> Is it possible to open a socket via listen(port) and still have the standard
> input stream connected to the octave process?
>
> I have tried all combinations of 'fork'|'nofork' and 'debug'|'nodebug', but
> whenever I have called listen(port), any commands typed into the octave
> command line are ignored (actually the prompt is missing, too).
>
> Brian
>   
So, there is a different socket package that also has a listen() 
function that is more similar to the POSIX socket interface.  The socket 
functions in the 'miscellaneous' package ends up being a method of 
sending octave commands to another computer to be executed.  The 
functions found in the 'socket' package are very similar to the posix 
ones, although I still need to document them  more completely.  Now that 
it looks like someone besides me seems interested in using it, I guess I 
now have the motivation to get the documentation done.

John