[Coco] Play with NitrOS-9 over the Internet

[Aaron Wolfe]

The DW server could send a signal to the shell/os-9 when a connection
is lost, similar to loss of carrier on a serial line (which is sort of
is, especially from OS-9's perspective).
Maybe some part of the system can be triggered through a signal byte
or a status change in the port to do the logout automatically?


On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have gotten so accustomed to "logging out", I never thought about using
> 'ex'. So I am one of the ones who left a shell running. In thinking of it,
> though, I would think making use of OS-9's batch function could easily fix
> this.
>
> /dd:list logout
>
> ex
>
> /dd:
>
> Wayne
>
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 04:40:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > Unforch, I still have a shell prompt:
>> > {T2|11}/DD:close
>> > ERROR #214
>>
>> "ex"????
>>
>> Sending an escape should work, too.  I'd try it, but the CoCo seems to
>> be down at the moment.
>>
>> As for backspace, ^H is the default.  0x7F, IIRC, is ASCII "delete"
>> which is probably what your linux box's backspace key actually sends.
>> But that's a flame war that's been raging since the GNU project
>> started, if not before, so there's no reason to continue it here.
>>
>> Willard
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