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Stanford University Terminal Interface Message Processor


SAIL has a  Terminal Interface  Message Processor (Terminal  IMP, or  TIP)
which provides hardwired or dialup terminal access to other ARPAnet  sites
without going through SU-AI.   It also provides access  to SU-AI when  the
direct dialup lines are  saturated.  Our TIP  is officially called  SU-TIP
and nicknamed (by popular vote) FELT-TIP.

To use the TIP you first need  to know the telephone number for modems  of
the same  speed  as your  terminal  (unless it  is  hardwired to  the  TIP
locally).  The  current  telephone numbers  available  to SAIL  users  are
listed below.

speed (baud)	telephone number	lines in hunt group
110-300		coming soon		4
150/1200	497-1113		1 now, soon to be 2

Please don't give out these numbers  to anyone!  SAIL users can read  them
in this  file.  Landlubbers  (i.e., non-SAILers)  interested in  accessing
other sites via the SU-TIP must be authorized by Les Earnest  (LES@SU-AI).
It's in your  own best interest  not to have  unauthorized hackers  (e.g.,
high school students using an MIT site) tying up TIP ports.  In  addition,
these telephone numbers  will be changed  every few months,  and only  the
authorized non-SAIL  TIP  users  will  be informed  of  the  new  numbers.
Remember, the TIP you save may be your own!

Once you've dialed  up the  TIP, you usually  need to  give the  following
commands to open a connection (i.e., TELNET) to SU-AI:

@R<cr>		[or just "E" on either a 110-300 baud or hardwired port]
@O 11<cr>

When a session  is done and  you have logged  out of SU-AI,  give the  TIP
command

@C<cr>

To get SAIL Datamedia Service read the directions on "Use of DMs via TIPs"
in DM.ME[UPDOC](5).   In  addition, the  entire  TIP command  language  is
documented in the  "User's Guide  to the Terminal  IMP" by  BBN, which  is
found in TIPUG.BBN[UP,DOC].