From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 28 09:18:09 1999 Subject: Re: An octave perl module? From: Daniel Heiserer To: Gordon Haverland , "help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu" Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:17:22 +0100 Gordon Haverland wrote: > > Michael Preminger wrote: > > > > If I understand it correctly, Heisam wants to use Octave as a calculator > > for number crunching applications implemented with scripts. Given this, > > Swig could be used if Octave provided library functions that can be used > > in a stand alone manner, (link the library, use functions in stand alone > > and obtain results) and do not require the Octave environment to run > > under. > > > > Now my question: Does Octave provide this option? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Daniel Heiserer wrote: > > > > > Haisam K. Ido wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there an octave perl module? > > If a person wanted to call octave within perl, with the > octave environment active, you would probably need to > use the perl modules that act like expect. Essentially > perl would be acting as a user, running octave via a > pty (pseudoterminal). Well acoording to performance this is a horror i think. Using swig all octave-functions would be direct acessible objects inside perl. > > Gord. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Daniel Heiserer ----- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Phys. Daniel Heiserer, BMW AG, Knorrstrasse 147, 80788 Muenchen Abteilung EK-20 Tel.: 089-382-21187, Fax.: 089-382-42820 mailto:daniel dot heiserer at bmw dot de