[Coco] OS-9 Startup script

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Thu May 16 13:41:28 EDT 2013


check the shell <arglist> in this manual:

http://www.roug.org/soren/6809/os9guide.pdf



On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:03:33AM -0400, Bill Pierce wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know the proper syntax to change the "default" work
> > directory from the startup script?  If I do:
> >
> > chd /dd/xxx
> > shell i=/w&
> >
> > The new window will be in the xxx dir but the main window will revert
> back to /dd
>
>
> Yeah, what happens is that the shell running startup exits, then a new
> shell is forked for /term.
>
> I think you can have a s.t.a.r.t.u.p script that is run when a shell
> starts?  Check the shell+ docs.  Otherwise you'll have to get
> complicated. :-(  I think the "official" way would be to use tsmon.
>
> Willard
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