Document Series edit
TIP is the acronym for
Tcl Improvement Proposal, a process put into place by the
Tcl Core Team (TCT) for submitting changes to Tcl or Tk that would result in C API or script level API interfaces.
The home base for TIPs is
http://www.purl.org/tcl/tip/ or
http://tip.tcl.tk/ (they end up at the same place after magical behind-the-scenes URL rewriting)
For people who do not feel that they have the technical expertise to see a TIP through the process, at least for Tcl and Tk there is the
SourceForge Feature Request mechanism.
Utility Program edit
Long ago, when "
Unix" often as not meant "
Solaris" (except that it was called "SunOS" then) or something now regarded as even more recondite,
serial port work generally involved the command-line utilities tip(1) and cu(1) ([
1], or [
2], for example). Questions sometimes still arise about these from new readers of
Exploring Expect, because that venerable volume was written at a time when tip(1) constituted a natural example for its lessons. tip(1) and cu(1) functions now might be done by ckermit [
3], minicom [
4], ...
[Was tip(1) specifically a BSD creation?]
