Tunnel vision

can't seem to get this to work. the idea is that a turtle openly receives messages until it hears "connect" then sends a counter message, "connect" to the computer, that receives it and starts the turtle gui. every time I type w into the computer, it should make the turtle go forward. but it doesn't… the only command that the turtle will respond to is the terminate key that closes the gui on both terminals, "t"

Please post the code for both turtle and computer.

Although it's likely unrelated to your immediate issue, it's worth noting that you'll probably want to be using the parallel API if you intend to have a turtle make use of rednet. Eg.