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remote(5)

phones(5)

TIP(1C)                              BSD                               TIP(1C)



NAME
     tip, cu - connect to a remote system

SYNOPSIS
     tip [ -v ] [ -speed ] system-name
     tip [ -v ] [ -speed ] phone-number
     cu phone-number [ -t ] [ -s speed ] [ -a acu ] [ -l line ] [ -# ]

DESCRIPTION
     tip and cu establish a full-duplex connection to another machine, giving
     the appearance of being logged in directly on the remote CPU.  Naturally,
     you must have a login (or equivalent) on the machine to which you wish to
     connect.  The preferred interface is tip.  The cu interface is included
     for those people attached to the "call UNIX" command.  This manual page
     describes only tip.

     Typed characters are normally transmitted directly to the remote machine
     (which does the echoing as well).  A tilde (~) appearing as the first
     character of a line is an escape signal; valid commands are listed below.

     tip uses the file /etc/remote to find how to reach a particular system
     and to find out how it should operate while talking to the system; refer
     to remote(5) for a full description.

     When tip establishes a connection, it sends out a connection message to
     the remote system; the default value, if any, is defined in /etc/remote.

     When tip prompts for an argument (e.g., during setup of a file transfer)
     the line typed may be edited with the standard erase and kill characters.
     A null line (or an interrupt) in response to a prompt aborts the dialogue
     and returns you to the remote machine.

     tip guards against multiple users connecting to a remote system by
     opening modems and terminal lines with exclusive access, and by honoring
     the locking protocol used by uucp(1C).

     During file transfers tip provides a running count of the number of lines
     transferred.  When you use the ~> and ~< commands, the eofread and
     eofwrite variables are used to recognize end-of-file when reading, and
     specify end-of-file when writing (see below).  File transfers normally
     depend on tandem mode for flow control.  If the remote system does not
     support tandem mode, set the echocheck variable to indicate that tip
     should synchronize with the remote system on the echo of each transmitted
     character.

     When tip must dial a phone number to connect to a system, it will print
     various messages indicating its actions.  tip supports the Ventel 212+,
     Racal-Vadic 3451, and Bizcomp 1031 and 1032 integral call unit/modems.

COMMANDS
     ~CTRL/D     Drop the connection and exit.  You may still be logged in on
                 the remote machine.  The ~. command has the same effect.

     ~c [name]   Change directory to name.  No argument implies your home
                 directory.

     ~!          Escape to a shell; exiting the shell will return you to tip.

     ~>          Copy file from local to remote.  tip prompts for the name of
                 a local file to transmit.

     ~<          Copy file from remote to local.  tip prompts first for the
                 name of the file to be sent, then for a command to be
                 executed on the remote machine.

     ~p from [ to ]
                 Send a file to a remote UNIX host.  The put command causes
                 the remote UNIX system to run the command string
                      cat > 'to'
                 while tip sends it the from file.  If the to filename isn't
                 specified, the from filename is used.  This command is
                 actually a UNIX-specific version of the ~> command.

     ~t from [ to ]
                 Take a file from a remote UNIX host. As in the put command,
                 the to file defaults to the from filename if not specified.
                 The remote host executes the command string
                      cat 'from';echo ^A
                 to send the file to tip.

     ~|          Pipe the output from a remote command to a local UNIX
                 process.  The command string sent to the local UNIX system is
                 processed by the shell.

     ~$          Pipe the output from a local UNIX process to the remote host.
                 The command string sent to the local UNIX system is processed
                 by the shell.

     ~#          Send a BREAK to the remote system. For systems that don't
                 support the necessary ioctl call, the BREAK is simulated by a
                 sequence of line speed changes and DEL characters.

     ~s          Set a variable (see the discussion below).

     ~CTRL/Z     Stop tip (only available with job control).

     ~CTRL/Y     Stop only the local side of tip (only available with job
                 control); the remote side of tip, the side that displays
                 output from the remote host, is left running.

     ~?          Get a summary of the tilde escapes.

VARIABLES
     tip maintains a set of variables which control its operation.  Some of
     these variable are read-only to normal users. (Root is allowed to change
     anything of interest).  Variables may be displayed and set through the ~s
     escape.  The syntax for variables is patterned after vi(1) and Mail(1).
     Supplying the word all as an argument to the ~s command displays all
     variables readable by the user.



     Variables are numeric (num), string (str), character (char), or Boolean
     (bool) values.  Boolean variables are set merely by specifying their
     name; they may be reset by prepending an exclamation mark (!) to the
     name. To set other variable types, concatenate an equal sign (=) and the
     desired value. The entire assignment must not have any blanks in it.

     A single set command may be used to interrogate as well as set a number
     of variables.  You may initialize variables at run time by placing set
     commands (without the ~s prefix) in the file .tiprc in your home
     directory.

     The following is a list of common variables, their abbreviations, and
     their default values.

     beautify  (bool) Discard unprintable characters when a session is being
               scripted; abbreviated be.

     baudrate  (num) The baud rate at which the connection was established;
               abbreviated ba.

     dialtimeout
               (num) When dialing a phone number, the time (in seconds) to
               wait for a connection to be established; abbreviated dial.

     echocheck (bool) Synchronize with the remote host during file transfer by
               waiting for the echo of the last character transmitted; default
               is off.

     eofread   (str) The set of characters which signify and end-of-
               transmission during a ~< file transfer command; abbreviated
               eofr.

     eofwrite  (str) The string sent to indicate end-of-transmission during a
               ~> file transfer command; abbreviated eofw.

     eol       (str) The set of characters that indicate an end-of-line.  tip
               will recognize escape characters only after an end-of-line.

     escape    (char) The command prefix (escape) character; abbreviated es;
               default value is the tilde (~).

     exceptions
               (str) The set of characters which should not be discarded by
               the beautification switch; abbreviated ex; default value is
               "\t\n\f\b".

     force     (char) The character used to force literal data transmission;
               abbreviated fo; default value is CTRL/P.

     framesize (num) The amount of data (in bytes) to buffer between file
               system writes when receiving files; abbreviated fr.

     host      (str) The name of the host to which you are connected;
               abbreviated ho.

     prompt    (char) The character which indicates and end-of-line on the
               remote host; abbreviated pr; default value is "\n".  This value
               is used to synchronize during data transfers.  The count of
               lines transferred during a file transfer command is based on
               recipt of this character.

     raise     (bool) Upper case mapping mode; abbreviated ra; default value
               is off.  When this mode is enabled, all lowercase letters will
               be mapped to uppercase by tip for transmission to the remote
               machine.

     raisechar (char) The input character used to toggle uppercase mapping
               mode; abbreviated rc; default value is CTRL/A.

     record    (str) The name of the file in which a session script is
               recorded; abbreviated rec; default value is tip.record.

     script    (bool) Session scripting mode; abbreviated sc; default is off.
               When script is true, tip will record everything transmitted by
               the remote machine in the script record file specified in
               record.  If the beautify switch is on, only printable ASCII
               characters will be included in the script file (those
               characters between 040 and 0177).  The variable exceptions is
               used to indicate characters which are an exception to the
               normal beautification rules.

     tabexpand (bool) Expand tabs to spaces during file transfers; abbreviated
               tab; default value is false.  Each tab is expanded to 8 spaces.

     verbose   (bool) Verbose mode; abbreviated verb; default is true.  When
               verbose mode is enabled, tip prints messages while dialing,
               shows the current number of lines transferred during a file
               transfer operations, and more.

     SHELL     (str) The name of the shell to use for the ~! command; the
               default value is taken from the environment, or is /bin/sh.

     HOME      (str) The home directory to use for the ~c command; the default
               value is taken from the environment.

OPTIONS
     -v        Use verbose mode.

     -speed    Specify speed as the baud rate for transmission.  Overrides the
               system default.

FILES
     /etc/remote                global system descriptions
     /etc/phones                global phone number data base
     ${REMOTE}                  private system descriptions
     ${PHONES}                  private phone numbers
     ~/.tiprc                   initialization file.
     /usr/spool/uucp/LCK..*     lock file to avoid conflicts with uucp

NOTES
     When you are dialing out using /etc/remote, you should use one of the
     /dev/sio devices rather than one of the /dev/tty devices, because the sio
     devices do not wait for the carrier.  Note, however, the the standard LCK
     mechanism won't work if one user is using a /dev/tty device and another
     is using a /dev/sio device.

SEE ALSO
     remote(5), phones(5)

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