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

[Przemek Klosowski]

   from reading several of your posts on the listen function it seems that you
   are kind of fixated on your TCL stuff. Because there are many more uses of
   octave besides embedding in TCL, your short answer could have been "you are
   right, listen is useless unless you want to have reduced octave
   functionality".

No, Paul's listen is very useful apart from TCL; I used it this way
myself. The point is that octave command loop is not set to accept
multiple input streams, and TCL always had this capability, so if you
want to be able to accept commands from a network socket and, say,
commandline at the same time, TCL gives the easiest way to implement
it. This was the original question, so Paul brougt up TCL. Best tool
for the job, and all that.