NAME

DESCRIPTION

The first entry is the name(s) of the host system. If there is more than one name for a system, the names are separated by vertical bars. After the name of the system comes the fields of the description. A field name followed by an `=' sign indicates a string value. A field name followed by a `#' sign indicates a numeric value.

Entries named ``tip*'' and ``cu*'' are used as default entries by tip(1), and the cu(1) interface to tip, as follows. When tip is invoked with only a phone number, it looks for an entry of the form ``tip300'', where 300 is the data rate with which the connection is to be made. When the cu interface is used, entries of the form ``cu300'' are used.

CAPABILITIES

at

(str) Auto call unit type.

br

(num) The data rate (bits per second) used for communications on the serial port. When a modem is used, the data rate used to communicate with the remote modem may be different than this rate. This is a decimal number. The default rate is 9600 bits per second.

cm

(str) An initial connection message to be sent to the remote host. For example, if a host is reached through a port selector, this might be set to the appropriate sequence required to switch to the host.

cu

(str) Call unit if making a phone call. Default is the same as the `dv' field.

di

(str) Disconnect message sent to the host when a disconnect is requested by the user.

du

(bool) This host is on a dial-up line.

dv

(str) UNIX device(s) to open to establish a connection. If this file refers to a terminal line, tip(1) attempts to perform an exclusive open on the device to ensure only one user at a time has access to the port.

el

(str) Characters marking an end-of-line. The default is NULL. `~' escapes are only recognized by tip after one of the characters in `el', or after a carriage-return.

fs

(str) Frame size for transfers. The default frame size is equal to BUFSIZ.

hd

(bool) The host uses half-duplex communication, local echo should be performed.

ie

(str) Input end-of-file marks. The default is NULL.

oe

(str) Output end-of-file string. The default is NULL. When tip is transferring a file, this string is sent at end-of-file.

pa

(str) The type of parity to use when sending data to the host. This may be one of ``even'', ``odd'', ``none'', ``zero'' (always set bit 8 to zero), ``one'' (always set bit 8 to 1). The default is even parity.

pn

(str) Telephone number(s) for this host. If the telephone number field contains an @ sign, tip searches the file /etc/phones file for a list of telephone numbers (see phones(5)).

tc

(str) Indicates that the list of capabilities is continued in the named description. This is used primarily to share common capability information.

FILES

/etc/remote

The remote host description file resides in /etc.

EXAMPLES

UNIX-57600:\
:dv=/dev/cuau0:el=^D^U^C^S^Q^O@:oe=^D:du:at=hayes:br#115200:pa=none:
arpavax|ax:\
:pn=\@:tc=UNIX-57600

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