[Coco] tsmon / login

[Allen Huffman]

At Microware, all our OS-9 systems were set up with tsmon monitoring the serial port(s), or the telnet daemon would launch login if you connected that way. I am wanting to do the same thing on OS-9/6809 but I am forgetting something…

In my startup, I initialize some window devices…

iniz term w1 w2

…and at the end, I want to launch tsmon monitoring those devices

ex tsmon /term /w1 /w2

The one on /term works, but /w1 and /w2 never respond to ENTER. (Hmmm, maybe I need to echo something there to get stdin reading from them?)

Also, I go from 392K FREE booting to the shell, to 360K booting that way. In procs, I see SysGo is still running, as well as the shell it spawned. I thought doing the “ex” would kill off the shell that was processing the startup file. I think SysGo spawns a shell to process startup, then at the end it spawns a new shell for the user — so that may explain why SysGo is still there. The thing it spawned (shell processing startup) never exited (it became tsmon), so it’s still waiting.

I tried running tsmon in the background too:

ex tsmon /term /w1 /w2 &

What am I forgetting?

		— A