Tcl, or more advanced clients such as GUI monitors can be written in C
with little difficulty.
.PP
-By default, the server listens for admin connections on the Unix-domain
-socket
-.BR /var/lib/tripe/tripesock .
Administration commands use a textual protocol. Each client command or
server response consists of a line of ASCII text terminated by a single
linefeed character. No command may be longer than 255 characters.