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 3.1pre4              2000/09/15                     isdnformat(5)