This is the README for TipTop.0.93.N.b.tar.gz [Download] [Browse] [Up]
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
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- 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*
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.