cannot start listen command

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 4, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Sverker Sikström <sverker.sikstrom at lucs.lu.s 
e> wrote:

> Dear Ben
>
> Thanks a lot for you very helpfull instruction of how to get going  
> with the Listen command a few weeks back. I did get command  
> "started" using your help, however, I have not been able get it  
> going yet. I would very much appreciate a helping hand here.
>
> My goal is to have Php programm communciating with Octave, so that  
> one can that when a visotor click on a webpage than this webpage can  
> send string to Octave that makes a calcualtion and send its back to  
> the webpage (where we use Php) at the webpage. Also I would like to  
> have the Ocatve code running all the time, or at least have access  
> to large amount of data in the internal memory without having to  
> make a slow load from the harddrive between the calls. Also there  
> may be several user access this information at the same time.
>
> I am not sure how to do this. But I think the Listen command would  
> be the way to go. Is that correct?
>
> I try to run listen with:
>
> octave-3.0.1:1> pkg load sockets
> listen('128.0.0.1','fork')
> error: connect: expecting a octave_socket or integer
> octave-3.0.1:2>
>
> But I get an error message (see above). I guess I have the wrong  
> call, or perhapse I need to initaitve something before.
>
> Once this code in the Octave is up and running. Then how do you call  
> this rotine from Php?
>
> I would appreciate help on this topic very much. If you do not know  
> how to set this up, please suggest someone that could help us out on  
> this.
>
> Sincerely, Sverker Sikström
>
> Ben Abbott skrev:
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Sverker Sikström wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> This is probabaly a very simple questions, but I am stuck and new to
>>> Octave. I am trying to run the command 'listen'
>>> (http://octave.sourceforge.net/doc/f/listen.html) on Octave. But  
>>> it does
>>> not seem to find the command:
>>>
>>> octave-3.0.1:46> listen
>>> error: `listen' undefined near line 46 column 1
>>> octave-3.0.1:46>
>>>
>>> Have I not installed Octave correctly? I am using mac 0s 10.5. 4.  
>>> Any
>>> help is appreciated!
>>>
>>> Sverker
>>
>> I haven't tried to do this under Mac OS X, but you'll need to  
>> install the sockets package from Octave-Forge. The "listen" command  
>> is part of that package (it is not part of Octave's core functions).
>>
>>    http://octave.sourceforge.net/sockets/index.html
>>
>> To install see "help pkg"
>>
>> Ben

Unfortunately, I'm not knowledgeable in what you'd like to do ..., so  
I've cc'd Octave's help list. Hopefully someone will be able to answer  
your questions.

Ben