title: Multiple GNU Octave Instances
body: <p>I've searched to try and find the answer to this question, but unfortunately, information is few and far between.</p>
  
  <p>I need to be able to open multiple instances of GNU Octave to run a script which will convert a file. Each file takes approximately 5 minutes to convert, so for 10 files I'm waiting nearly 50 minutes.</p>
  
  <p>However, I can (and have) manually open 10 instances of Octave and run the script manually in each instance. Is there a way to do this programmatically? So if I had 10 files, 10 different instances of Octave would open and each would run the script to convert 1 file. These conversions aren't dependent on each other, but if it's simple enough to communicate between the different instances of Octave, that would be a "nice to know".</p>