Hey CMAta,
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, and thanks for those links I will be sure and look through them ASAP.
Clarifying and Restating the Problem:
Once remotely connected to an Edison through a terminal, is there a way to run multiple programs, through a method such as 'screen' or 'tmux'?
An Initial Thought:
At the bottom of step 5 of the Edison Getting Started Guide - Linux before it links to the iotkit-comm libraries, it says, "To learn how to develop Edison applications that discover, connect, and communicate with other Edison devices"; So the iotkit-comm tutorial (c version) could be assuming that I have two Edisons, and I am connecting to each remotely on a terminal, and running 'sensor' on one Edison, and 'thermostat' on the other.
More Specifics:
I am currently running Ubuntu 14.04. I have not yet tried to use Putty specifically with Edison but I have used it before, and do not think it will solve the problem. I also didn't specify the board I'm using; which is the Intel Edison Breakout Board and NOT the Intel Edison Arduino Board.
I'm using my local machine to connect to my Edison remotely as is instructed in step 5 of the Edison Getting Started Guide - Linux (same link as before) by sjaworski on Aug 28, 2014.
In my local machine (Ubuntu 140.04) I open up a terminal and use the command
sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
I then hit enter and am prompted with an Edison login, and type in "root", logging in the terminal begins with this line.
root@edison:~#
From here I begin to follow the directions in the C version of the iotkit-comm library tutorial (also same as above). Once you click on "start here" in the middle of the page of the tutorial it says "Run a sample program" and tells you to change directories; so back in the terminal I change directories, and then run the sensor program:
cd /usr/share/iotkit-comm/examples/c
./sensor
Now here is where I run into issues with following the tutorial; I cannot just open a new terminal and screen back into the Edison from the local machine, and I cannot screen or use tmux remotely from the Edison. Is there a way to run multiple programs, through a method such as 'screen' or 'tmux'?