Tip is a really simple terminal program. Similar to the original uucp "cu". It is purposely light weight and small.
It is very useful for connecting to devices over serial ports - modems, serial consoles and similar. It supports all the usual serial port configuration settings (baud rates, parity, stop bits, flow control, etc). It also has the ability to capture session data to a file.
The code has been part of the uClinux-dist source package for more than 15 years. But it was never made available outside of that. This repository is dedicated to just tip.