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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 subsections; 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@dungeon.inka.de>,  for  Debian  GNU/Linux  and
       isdn4linux.  Now maintained by Paul Slootman <paul@isdn4linux.de>.