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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)tip.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/18/94 .\" .Dd September 9, 2001 .Dt TIP 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm tip , .Nm cu .Nd connect to a remote system .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm tip .Op Fl nv .Op Fl Ar speed .Op Ar system\-name .Nm cu .Op Fl ehot .Op Fl a Ar acu .Op Fl l Ar line .Op Fl s Ar speed .Op Fl # .Op Ar phone\-number .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm and .Nm cu establish a full-duplex connection to another machine, giving the appearance of being logged in directly on the remote CPU. It goes without saying that you must have a login on the machine (or equivalent) to which you wish to connect. The preferred interface is .Nm tip . The .Nm cu interface is included for those people attached to the ``call .Ux Ns '' command of .At v7 . This manual page describes only .Nm tip . .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width 4n .It Fl a Ar acu Set the acu. .It Fl l Ar line For .Nm cu , specify the line to use. Either of the forms like .Pa tty00 or .Pa /dev/tty00 are permitted. .It Fl n No escape (disable tilde). .It Fl s Ar speed For .Nm cu , set the speed of the connection. Defaults to 9600. .It Fl v Set verbose mode. .El .Pp If .Ar speed is specified it will override any baudrate specified in the system description being used. .Pp If neither .Ar speed nor .Ar system-name are specified, .Ar system-name will be set to the value of the .Ev HOST environment variable. .Pp If .Ar speed is specified but .Ar system-name is not, .Ar system-name will be set to a value of 'tip' with .Ar speed appended. e.g. .Ic tip -1200 will set .Ar system-name to 'tip1200'. .Pp Typed characters are normally transmitted directly to the remote machine (which does the echoing as well). A tilde .Pq Ql ~ appearing as the first character of a line is an escape signal; the following are recognized: .Bl -tag -offset indent -width Fl .It Ic \&~^D No or Ic \&~ . Drop the connection and exit (you may still be logged in on the remote machine). .It Ic \&~c Op Ar name Change directory to .Ar name (no argument implies change to your home directory). .It Ic \&~! Escape to a shell (exiting the shell will return you to .Nm tip Ns ). .It Ic \&~> Copy file from local to remote. .Nm prompts for the name of a local file to transmit. .It Ic \&~< Copy file from remote to local. .Nm prompts first for the name of the file to be sent, then for a command to be executed on the remote machine. .It Ic \&~p Ar from Op Ar to Send a file to a remote .Ux host. The put command causes the remote .Ux system to run the command string .Dq cat > 'to' , while .Nm sends it the .Dq from file. If the .Dq to file isn't specified the .Dq from file name is used. this command is actually a .Ux specific version of the .Ic ~> command. .It Ic \&~t Ar from Op Ar to Take a file from a remote .Ux host. As in the put command the .Dq to file defaults to the .Dq from file name if it isn't specified. The remote host executes the command string .Dq cat 'from';echo ^A to send the file to .Nm tip . .It Ic \&~| Pipe the output from a remote command to a local .Ux process. The command string sent to the local .Ux system is processed by the shell. .It Ic \&~$ Pipe the output from a local .Ux process to the remote host. The command string sent to the local .Ux system is processed by the shell. .It Ic \&~C Fork a child process on the local system to perform special protocols such as \s-1XMODEM\s+1. The child program will be run with the following somewhat unusual arrangement of file descriptors: .Bd -literal -offset indent 0 <-> local tty in 1 <-> local tty out 2 <-> local tty out 3 <-> remote tty in 4 <-> remote tty out .Ed .It Ic \&~# Send a .Dv BREAK to the remote system. For systems which don't support the necessary .Fn ioctl call the break is simulated by a sequence of line speed changes and DEL characters. .It Ic \&~s Set a variable (see the discussion below). .It Ic \&~v List all variables and their values (if set). .It Ic \&~^Z Stop .Nm (only available with job control). .It Ic \&~^Y Stop only the .Dq local side of .Nm (only available with job control); the .Dq remote side of .Nm tip , the side that displays output from the remote host, is left running. .It Ic \&~? Get a summary of the tilde escapes. .El .Pp To find the system description and thus the operating characteristics of .Ar system-name , .Nm searches for a system description with a name identical to .Ar system-name . The search order is .Bl -enum -offset indent .It If the environment variable .Ev REMOTE does not start with a .Ql \&/ it is assumed to be a system description, and is considered first. .It If the environment variable .Ev REMOTE begins with a .Ql \&/ it is assumed to be a path to a .Xr remote 5 database, and the specified database is searched. .It The default .Xr remote 5 database, .Pa /etc/remote , is searched. .El .Pp See .Xr remote 5 for full documentation on system descriptions. .Pp The .Ar ba capability is used in system descriptions to specify the baud rate with which to establish a connection. If the value specified is not suitable, the baud rate to be used may be given on the command line, e.g., .Ql "tip -300 mds" . .Pp When .Nm establishes a connection it sends out the connection message specified in the .Ar cm capability of the system description being used. .Pp When .Nm 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 in response to a prompt, or an interrupt, will abort the dialogue and return you to the remote machine. .Pp .Nm 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 .Xr uucico 8 . .Pp During file transfers .Nm provides a running count of the number of lines transferred. When using the .Ic ~> and .Ic ~< commands, the .Dq eofread and .Dq 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, .Dq echocheck may be set to indicate .Nm should synchronize with the remote system on the echo of each transmitted character. .Pp When .Nm must dial a phone number to connect to a system it will print various messages indicating its actions. .Nm supports a variety of auto-call units and modems with the .Ar at capability in system descriptions. .Pp Support for Ventel 212+ (ventel), Hayes AT-style (hayes), USRobotics Courier (courier), Telebit T3000 (t3000) and Racal-Vadic 831 (vadic) units is enabled by default. .Pp Support for Bizcomp 1031[fw] (biz31[fw]), Bizcomp 1022[fw] (biz22[fw]), DEC DF0[23]-AC (df0[23]), DEC DN-11 (dn11) and Racal-Vadic 3451 (v3451) units can be added by recompiling .Xr tip 1 with the appropriate defines. .Pp Note that if support for both the Racal-Vadic 831 and 3451 is enabled they are referred to as the v831 and v3451 respectively. If only one of the two is supported, it is referred to as vadic. .Ss VARIABLES .Nm maintains a set of variables which control its operation. Some of these variables are read-only to normal users (root is allowed to change anything of interest). Variables may be displayed and set through the .Sq s escape. The syntax for variables is patterned after .Xr vi 1 and .Xr Mail 1 . Supplying .Dq all as an argument to the set command displays all variables readable by the user. Alternatively, the user may request display of a particular variable by attaching a .Ql ? to the end. For example, .Dq escape? displays the current escape character. .Pp Variables are numeric, string, character, or boolean values. Boolean variables are set merely by specifying their name; they may be reset by prepending a .Ql ! to the name. Other variable types are set by concatenating an .Ql = and the 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. Variables may be initialized at run time by placing set commands (without the .Ql ~s prefix in a file .Pa .tiprc in one's home directory). The .Fl v option causes .Nm to display the sets as they are made. Certain common variables have abbreviations. The following is a list of common variables, their abbreviations, and their default values: .Bl -tag -width Ar .It Ar beautify (bool) Discard unprintable characters when a session is being scripted; abbreviated .Ar be . .It Ar baudrate (num) The baud rate at which the connection was established; abbreviated .Ar ba . .It Ar dialtimeout (num) When dialing a phone number, the time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to be established; abbreviated .Ar dial . .It Ar echocheck (bool) Synchronize with the remote host during file transfer by waiting for the echo of the last character transmitted; default is .Ar off . .It Ar eofread (str) The set of characters which signify an end-of-transmission during a .Ic ~< file transfer command; abbreviated .Ar eofr . .It Ar eofwrite (str) The string sent to indicate end-of-transmission during a .Ic ~> file transfer command; abbreviated .Ar eofw . .It Ar eol (str) The set of characters which indicate an end-of-line. .Nm will recognize escape characters only after an end-of-line. .It Ar escape (char) The command prefix (escape) character; abbreviated .Ar es ; default value is .Ql ~ . .It Ar exceptions (str) The set of characters which should not be discarded due to the beautification switch; abbreviated .Ar ex ; default value is .Dq \et\en\ef\eb . .It Ar force (char) The character used to force literal data transmission; abbreviated .Ar fo ; default value is .Ql ^P . .It Ar framesize (num) The amount of data (in bytes) to buffer between filesystem writes when receiving files; abbreviated .Ar fr . .It Ar host (str) The name of the host to which you are connected; abbreviated .Ar ho . .It Ar prompt (char) The character which indicates an end-of-line on the remote host; abbreviated .Ar pr ; default value is .Ql \en . This value is used to synchronize during data transfers. The count of lines transferred during a file transfer command is based on receipt of this character. .It Ar raise (bool) Upper case mapping mode; abbreviated .Ar ra ; default value is .Ar off . When this mode is enabled, all lowercase letters will be mapped to uppercase by .Nm for transmission to the remote machine. .It Ar raisechar (char) The input character used to toggle uppercase mapping mode; abbreviated .Ar rc ; default value is .Ql ^A . .It Ar record (str) The name of the file in which a session script is recorded; abbreviated .Ar rec ; default value is .Dq tip.record . .It Ar script (bool) Session scripting mode; abbreviated .Ar sc ; default is .Ar off . When .Ar script is .Li true , .Nm will record everything transmitted by the remote machine in the script record file specified in .Ar record . If the .Ar beautify switch is on, only printable .Tn ASCII characters will be included in the script file (those characters between 040 and 0177). The variable .Ar exceptions is used to indicate characters which are an exception to the normal beautification rules. .It Ar tabexpand (bool) Expand tabs to spaces during file transfers; abbreviated .Ar tab ; default value is .Ar false . Each tab is expanded to 8 spaces. .It Ar verbose (bool) Verbose mode; abbreviated .Ar verb ; default is .Ar true . When verbose mode is enabled, .Nm prints messages while dialing, shows the current number of lines transferred during a file transfer operations, and more. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width Fl .It Ev SHELL The name of the shell to use for the .Ic ~! command; default value is .Dq /bin/sh . .It Ev HOME The home directory to use for the .Ic ~c command. .It Ev HOST The default value for .Ar system-name if none is specified via the command line. .It Ev REMOTE A system description, or an absolute path to a .Xr remote 5 system description database. .It Ev PHONES A path to a .Xr phones 5 database. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/var/spool/lock/LCK..*" -compact .It Pa /etc/remote global .Xr remote 5 database .It Pa /etc/phones default .Xr phones 5 file .It Pa ~/.tiprc initialization file .It Pa tip.record record file .It Pa /var/log/aculog line access log .It Pa /var/spool/lock/LCK..* lock file to avoid conflicts with .Xr uucp .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr phones 5 , .Xr remote 5 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command appeared in .Bx 4.2 . .Sh BUGS The full set of variables is undocumented and should, probably, be pared down.