From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun May 12 16:26:37 2002
Subject: Re: Passing values
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>
Cc: Help-Octave List <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 16:26:27 -0500

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 02:11:26PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2002, sbt wrote:
> > I want to pass variable values from a perl cgi script to an octave
> > script in order to generate plots that my be dynamically created and

You could use Andy Adler's mighty cool Inline::Octave package for Perl and
do it all inside the cgi; the Inline::Octave module takes care of calling
Octave for you.

Two caveats: This might require Octave 2.1.*, and you better be careful
about security implications of the cgi script.

Dirk

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