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1[See NEWS file for much more up-to-date information]
2
3Tip can be configured in a number of ways:
4
5ACU's:
6-----
7
8New ACU's may be added by editing the ACU description table
9in acutab.c and writing a ``driver''.
10
11ACU usage can be monitored by defining ACULOG in the makefile.
12If this is done and no phone numbers should appear in the
13log file, define PRISTINE in the makefile.
14
15Variables:
16---------
17
18Tip's internal workings revolve around a set of (possibly)
19user defined variables.  These are statically initialized
20in vars.c, and from the remote file.
21
22Note that adding or deleting variables requires tip to be completedly
23recompiled, as indexes into the variable table are used to avoid
24expensive lookups.  These defines are set in tip.h.
25
26Commands:
27--------
28
29The command dispatch table is defined in cmdtab.c.  Commands
30may have attributes such as EXPerimental and PRIVileged (only
31root may execute).
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36
37Recent changes about Jan 82
38
39A new, improved version of tip is now available.  The most important
40addition is the capacility to specify a phone number with tip.  The
41default baud rate is 1200.  To use it do:
42
43	tip phone-number
44or
45	tip -300 phone-number
46
47for 300 baud.
48
49A ~^Z command has been added to tip as well.
50
51A new cu program is available that interfaces to the tip program.
52It attempts to give the same user interface as cu but it is really
53the tip program so you have all the advantages of tip.  This allows
54cu (actually tip) to search for a free ACU instead of having the
55user specify which one he wants.
56