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TUTORIAL 09 · STEP 1 OF 21

Terminal lines and login scripts

Intermediate25 min

Understand live terminal state and run an account startup program

01

A terminal connection is a line

Every /trm browser connection creates an independent MVDB line. The line owns its logged-in user, current account, terminal settings, options, active select list, record locks and in-memory BASIC session state. Persisted account files are shared, but one line's prompt and working state do not leak into another line.