From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Mar  9 03:29:47 1999
Subject: Is there anybody out here?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Matthew Valenta" <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com>
Cc: "Octave Graphics" <octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 03:24:02 -0600 (CST)

On  8-Mar-1999, Matthew Valenta <mvalenta at lycosmail dot com> wrote:

| JWE, looking at wxWindows, I believe there is a socket interface
| that could be used for interfacing with other programs.  Of course,
| I'd prefer some CORBA implementation, but that hasn't been
| well standardized yet.

If the wxWindows class for sockets makes it easier to use them than
just going through the bind, accept, listen, etc. interface, then I
don't see why we couldn't use them.  To make them really useful for
Octave though, there needs to be a set of functions available at the
Octave language level (via DEFUNs).  Unless you have a better idea, it
might be useful if the interface for that were similar to the one for
the C library socket functions.

jwe