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

[K. Pruitt]

I am fairly certain that you're going to have to move up to NitrOS9 to 
utilize DW4. I do believe I saw that posted by somebody in the know, that 
DW4 was just too far along for stock OS9 any longer. Somebody please correct 
me if I am wrong about that.

DW4 and NitrOS9 work together right out of the box. I think most if not all 
of the people who wrote and/or are writing it are here, so you have the best 
support group possible to help with any transition issues you may encounter.

Drive NitrOS9 for a couple of weeks and the speed difference alone will make 
you a fan. You definitely want that DW4 connectivity.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Ramsower" <georgera at gvtc.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] more that one shell from an external terminal(update)


>  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.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> -- startup stuff --
>> shell i=/z1&
>> shell i=/z2&
>> -- rest of startup stuff --
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>  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.
>>
>> 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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