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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		494-9234		4
150/1200	493-3280		1
150/1200	497-1112		2

NOTE:  Please don't give out these numbers to anyone else!  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 display service  read the directions on "Use of  DMs
via TIPs"  in  DM.ME[UP,DOC](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].

Send questions and report problems to BPM, the TIP Liaison.