Re: [FEMM] Updated development version

[David Meeker <dmeeker@xxxxxxxx>]

Israel Kehaty wrote:

> Hi David:
>
> Are you planing to have a version for GNU Octave (the windows version) 
> too?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Israel Kehaty
No, I'm not planning a version for Octave.  Although Octave mirrors the 
functionality of Matlab in many ways, it doesn't have ActiveX support 
like Matlab.  Octave might be able to communicate with FEMM via named 
pipes (i.e. the popen2 command in Octave, etc.), but I'm not sure that 
these built-in mechanisms will work right on a Windows platform.  Maybe 
someone will figure how to do the communications and contribute the 
code.  The situation is the same for Scilab (another widely used 
Matlab-like but freely available program).

Dave.