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.

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.




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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)
([http://tautology.org/software/man/1/tip], or
[http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/tip.1.html], 
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 minicom,
...

[[Was tip(1) specifically a BSD creation?]]
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