Re: Octaviz

> Great!  How big are the oct-files?  Smaller than 30-50 Mb I hope!

There are 9 .oct files, largest one is about 4Mb, In total ~14Mb.

> The better solution is to avoid fork altogether and to
> instead use a higher level interface, which on windows
> systems calls CreateProcess or _popen and on unix
> calls fork-exec.

I don't use fork directly, I create a new thread which internally uses fork so 
I guess there is no way around it.
>
> I've done a little bit of this for octave, but I don't remember
> if any of it worked its way back into the octave tree.  I find
> the source code for Ruby to be an excellent source for
> examples of working with Windows API.  Unfortunately
> the process handling code gets a little complicated because
> they are trying to emulate child PIDs and process control,
> which is presumably more elaborate support than VTK needs.
> Good luck!

Thanks, it seems I'll need a lot of it!

Dragan