tip is a unix utility for establishing a terminal connection to a remote system via a modem. It is commonly associated with Sun's Solaris as it comes with that operating system.
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Tip is one of the commands referenced in the expect reference book by Don Libes.
The tip command line options are as follows
tip [-v] [-speed-entry] {hostname | phone-number | device}
use ~. to exit
This Expect script is a simple example that establishes a terminal session:
spawn tip modem expect "connected" send "ATD$argc\r" set timeout 30 expect "CONNECT"
As tip does not have the built-in logging capabilities that Minicom has, we need to use some other means to record the session. One way is to use script:
raub@kushana-134>script -a install.log Script started, file is install.log raub@kushana-1>tip hardwire [tip session takes place] raub@kushana-2>exit Script done, file is install.log raub@kushana-135>
and so on. In the above example, run on a Sun SPARC 20 workstation running Solaris 9, we first create a log file called install.log in the current directory using script and then tell tip to use serial port B.
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