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- TipTop is a telecommunication program. TipTop version 0.93 works
- on black NeXTSTEP 3.1. Please send me a note if you would like to
- have an Intel version.
-
- TipTop is shareware. You are welcome to download it and try it.
- If you use it you should register yourself. Educational license
- fee is $25. Non-educational license fee is $35. Until you register,
- TipTop will quit after 15 minutes of usage. For more info see the
- License section in Info->Help.
-
- You may also want to fetch TipTop-goodies.compressed package
- which contains executable code for term, term clients, NcFTP,
- Expect, and associated documentation.
-
- Send your questions and comments to Pedja Bogdanovich at:
- pedja%luka@umiacs.umd.edu
-
-
- Features
- ========
-
- - VT102 terminal emulation.
-
- - Terminal window features scrollback buffer, find panel,
- changeable fonts (font panel), copy/paste, etc. I.e.,
- everything that you expect from a NeXT app (including
- resizable terminal window)!
-
- - A simple PhoneBook.
-
- - Transfer: ZMODEM send and receive, and ASCII capture.
-
- - TipTop uses UUCP locking protocol.
-
- - TipTop can run external programs such as sx/sb/sz/rx/rb/rz,
- term, expect, etc.
-
- + Running term in TipTop lets you run a SLIP-like connection to a
- remote site. You can have several terminal sessions connected
- to a remote site, while transfering files, and executing
- remote commands at the same time. (You can even run remote
- X-window clients connected to your local X-server.)
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- 1. Copy TipTop.app into your favorite application directory (e.g.,
- /LocalApps).
-
- 2. su to root and:
-
- chown uucp.daemon /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop
- chmod u+s,g+s /LocalApps/TipTop.app/TipTop
-
- (Replace /LocalApps by the the actual directory path in which
- you installed the program.)
-
- 3. Run the program.
-
- If you don't want to run TipTop as set-uid uucp.daemon, you can change
- the permissions for the cu port(s) directly. Instead of step 2 above
- do the following:
-
- 2'. su to root and:
-
- chmod ugo+rw /dev/cu*
-