How is "tip" spelled on Linux-speak?

Thu Oct 2 14:22:53 PDT 2003

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:38:44PM -0500, Jim Hickstein wrote:
> > I'll have to reboot one of the systems around here on an LNX-BBC to
> > help with that.  But look at modprobe serial and maybe run the
> > minicom -s to create a config that points directly to the serial
> > device node.
> 
> Why not just bring back tip(1)?  It's _so_ much easier to deal with, and it 
> Just Works.
> 
> I am still frustrated that MacOS X doesn't come with this.  ("man remote" 
> was there in 10.1, but they removed it in 10.2.)  Please don't let Linux 
> abandon it, too.

Got upstream sources?  Things can be added to the BBC project if we have
sources for them, bearing in mind space considerations.

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