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From: jejones@ea.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: SplMan/startup interactions?
Message-ID: <7300018@ea.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 19:50:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 19:50:00 1984
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Nf-From: ea!jejones    Nov  9 18:50:00 1984

Query for those who are running the Microware print spooler: how do you
start it? I am particularly interested in how people who have SplMan
invoked from the startup script.

I ask for this reason: I have startup set up to invoke the spooler
(the trailing lines are

	chd /d0/spool
	ex RunAt 140 "SplMan etc."),

[RunAt is something I've posted to net.micro.6809--it runs the specified
program at the specified priority]

and two curious things happen: first, SplMan (which runs forever, for
our purposes, inherits the startup file as stdin and keeps it open
forever). I know how to fix that, of course:

	ex RunAt 140 "SplMan etc." </null

once I have the null device installed.

The second, more curious thing, is that having SplMan so running seems
to cause the tsmon controlling the modem (which I have to kill to dial
out, unfortunately) to never die, but sit there with pending kill signal.
Once I shut down the spooler, the tsmon process goes ahead and croaks.
This is quite curious. (Even more so is that once the spooler shuts down,
the startup shell competes with the tsmon on the console terminal.)

Any advice and experiences are welcome.

					James Jones