[Coco] Tutorial on Telnet/inetd on Coco3 DW4 (is there one?)

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 12 October 2012 05:17:44 Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > But I just did a dw p s in the gui and I have to ask, what is the
> > ZTerm and a bunch of /Z0-Z15 devices for?  Did I get stoned and miss
> > the announcement or ??
> 
> /Zx are virtual window devices.  Just as /Nx provide virtual serial
> channels that map to various things on the server, the /Z devices map
> to windows on the server.
> 
> i.e:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-QvdX2bNQ

Kewl!
 
> That video was before the decision to separate window channels from
> serial channels, so you'll see me using /Nx there.  After some real
> world use we found that because the device descriptors for window
> devices are quite different from serial ports, and because the
> expected server behavior is very different, it was best to make them
> unique right from the moment they are initialized.

But I just checked in my dw3install/6309l2/modules/scf directory and I have 
neither of these new NTerm or ZTerm modules to build into a boot file, and 
of course no z.wn's either.  And since the repo is currently broken, I 
can't pull them, or can I somehow?  I also don't see them when I mount the 
repo's latest build.  I also note the repo no longer has 6309 builds.  
Another side effect of lwasm?

Nor do I have a copy of lwasm yet.  Can I assume that is now in Toolshed?

So how are we to proceed?
 
> /ZTerm is the graphical window equivalent of the /NTerm, which is used
> when you put OS9's console on a virtual channel or window.  This
> allows you to forego loading some big fat modules needed to drive the
> CoCo's display and keyboard and have a "headless" coco with an
> extraordinary amount of free ram in the system page.
> 
That would be huge!

Cheers, Gene
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