Re: [Sheflug] linux equivalent of tip

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Anyone know what the linux equivlent to the Solaris tip command is?
>
> eg on Sloaris I can type
>
> tip -9600 /dev/term/a
>
> and can then have a character-based session with whatever is connected
> via an RS232 lead to that serial port (eg a modem, a cisco router's
> console port, or whatever)

Short of using something like miniterm, I don't know of one. However I'll see
if I can find one. FreeBSD has tip and cu (from what I can gather) so it may
be possible to find the sources of the FreeBSD version and see how much work
needs to be done to port it (not much, I'd have thought).

Chris...

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