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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: "tip" with [xyz]modem wanted
Message-ID: <1990Apr13.210911.9586@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 13 Apr 90 21:09:11 GMT
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Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <3167@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>The SunOS tip can be used to do this.  Basically, there is a ~C
>>command that executes a process with its stdin and stdout attached
>>to the tip line.
>
>A quick check indicates that feature may be in the vanilla 4.3BSD "tip";
>I don't know whether it first appeared in some SunOS release or whether
>Sun just picked it up from Berkeley.

Looks like you're right.  I used the man page and the binary in our
system (which is a 4.3BSD-based) as my basis for the statement, along
with the knowledge that SunOS 4.0 supports this feature.

The Makefile I have for tip has a list of optional defines, and
describes this one as:

#       CONNECT                 worthless command

Could someone check and see if this is in the standard 4.3BSD makefile
for tip (I'd like to find out who thinks it's "worthless")?  I couldn't
find a version of tip source in the bsd-sources archive on gatekeeper,
so I suspect it's still AT&T-derived.
-- 
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