sending messages to an already-running instance of octave

[Dan Hitt]

Suppose that i start octave from the command line or otherwise, and am
interacting with it.

And suppose that i then run some other program.

Is there any way that the other program can send commands and data to
my running octave, through dbus or any other ipc method?

The only requirements are that the user should not have to do anything
to octave to make it respond (e.g., the user should not have to tell
octave to open a particular file), and the other program and octave
should be unrelated processes (although owned by the same user).

(The kinds of commands would be things that a user could presumably
directly do, like make plots, or inquire about the internal state of
octave, and the data would be numerical.)

TIA for any info or suggestions.