isdnformat

isdnformat(5)		 Linux System Administration		isdnformat(5)



NAME
       isdnformat - common isdn config file format

DESCRIPTION
       This man page describes the format of all isdn config files.

FORMAT
       Empty lines are ignored.

       If  a  #	 is  encountered,  this character and the rest of the line is
       ignored (it’s considered a comment). You can prepend a backslash \  to
       prevent this and use the # character.

       If  the	last character of a line is a backslash \, the next line is a
       continuation of the current line.

       The file format is like smb.conf or win.ini: there  are	sections  and
       entries within the section. However, the syntax was expanded with sub-
       sections; these can be nested as often as you like.

       All whitespace (space and tabs) at the end of the line are ignored.

       Section and entry names are case insensitive.

       Values are case sensitive, of course (the case is preserved).

       Section and entry names may not use the characters "*?|&/"; if one  of
       these is encountered, it is ignored.

       At  the	beginning  of  the line you may use as much whitespace as you
       like.

       A section has the format "[" NAME "]". You may use whitespace  between
       the braces and the name, or none at all.

       An entry has the format ENTRY "=" VALUE. You may use whitespace before
       and after the equal sign, or none at all.

       A subsection starts with ENTRY "=" "{"  and ends with "}". You may use
       sections, entries and subsections between the start and the end tag.

       Beware: unlike samba or windows the semicolon is not used for comments
       !

       You can use INCLUDE(File) to include a file. If the  filename  is  not
       absolute,  it’s	considered relative to the directory of the including
       document. You may use it anywhere in a file, but there may be no space
       characters in the file!

       All  subsections	 started  in an include file must end in that include
       file, so the number of opened and closed brackets must match.

       Beware: recursive including will	 cause	the  program  to  break.  The
       library does not prevent this.

AUTHOR
       This   manual   page  was  written  by  Andreas	Jellinghaus  <aj@dun-
       geon.inka.de>, for Debian GNU/Linux and isdn4linux.  Now maintained by
       Paul Slootman <paul@isdn4linux.de>.



ISDN 4 Linux 3.3		  2000/09/15			isdnformat(5)