> However, whois is entirely run in the userspace. I'm not sure how > well tip would do because MacOS is NOT, contrary to marketing, a BSD. No, tip(1) under MacOS X awaits a port to IOKit. Won't be me. I use minicom under Fink, and grumble. (Hint: Minicom has been so ported.) But Linux shouldn't have this problem, for Heavens's sake.