#: 14252 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    10-Feb-92  00:22:49
Sb: #14249-#Select
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,

The lockout comes from a program (like the shell) tieing up a device with a
pending ReadLn.  SCF locks the device so that someone else can't splat
characters on top of whatever you're about to type in.  Just forking a subshell
with "()" doesn't cause a lockout, as it doesn't do any reads while working.

But you're right, "(selwin;myprog)>>/w" doesn't work.  That's because none of
those paths are associated with the currently interactive window.

It's easy to get around this when the shell (like the CoCo's) has "/term;mdir -e)>>/w

The ">/term" is kinda like the CoCo's "