[Coco] more that one shell from an external terminal(update)

[George Ramsower]

  Okay, I found DW4 and it appears to be just the PC side. Is there a 
driver for OS9-L2 somewhere else?
  This does look interesting.
George R.


On 9/18/2015 3:05 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> George, the DW4 way I described would work for you, but it involves using Drivewire4. You could monitor as many 'shells' as you like from the PC.
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> You could even do this from your startup by creating all the PC terminals every time you boot... Let's say you wanted 2 terminals open running their own shells:
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> -- startup stuff --
> shell i=/z1&
> shell i=/z2&
> -- rest of startup stuff --
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> Using this, as soon as you boot up, 2 terminal windows will appear on your PC in 80x24 text. You can run most any text based application from these windows just as if you are sitting at the Coco (no graphics).
> Of course, this is using DW4, but it's also faster than a regular serial port connection as it's running 115kb!
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>  From these windows, you can even mount DSKs and VHDs directly into DW4 without bringing up the DW4 server GUI, but that's another story for another time :-)
> DW4 offers all you are asking and much more. A lot of people don't use DW4 because they don't want their Coco 'tethered' to a PC, but you're doing that anyway, so why not DW4? And all it takes is a modified serial cable which you'll be running for the serial connection anyway.
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> If what you are trying to do is monitor your external Coco experiments, this would be perfect for that! Any text based cmd can be run from these windows.. even TSEdit. I think there's a list on the DW4 wiki of what control codes it supports, if not, I'm sure Aaron could tell you.
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