NAME

       estic — Administration program for ISTEC       ISDN PABX.

SYNOPSIS

       estic [-c cmd]  [-n]  [-p port]

       xestic [-g geometry]  [-geometry geometry]

Description

       This  program allows you the administration of the ISDN private automatic branch exchanges ISTEC 1003 and
       ISTEC   1008         (produced   by   the   German   company   Emmerich).    The   documentation    under
       /usr/share/doc/estic/is mostly in the German language.

       The  main configuration file is estic.ini.  The program looks first in the current directory, than in the
       home directory and than under /etc for this file.

       While estic is for use from the console, xestic is a shell  script  that  runs  estic  inside  of  an  x-
       terminal-emulation.

       This  manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
       have a manual page.  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or  modify  this  document  under  the
       terms  of  the  GNU  Free  Documentation  License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free
       Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

Options

       -c cmd
                 cmd is a command that will be executed upon startup of estic.  This  is  useful  for  cronjobs,
                 e.g. for swaping configuration with estic -c loadconfig tag.ic.

       -g geometry      --geometry geometry
                 This  option  specifies  the preferred size and position of the xestic window; see X(1) for the
                 syntax.

       -n        No ISTEC is available, only edit parameters.

       -p port
                 Use ttyS1..ttyS63 to specify the serial port on which the ISTEC is hooked on.

Author

       The program has been written by Ullrich von Bassewitz        <uz@ibb.schwaben.com>.  The  program  is  no
       longer  maintained  by him.  Patches by W. Borgert        <debacle@debian.org> have been applied.  Thanks
       also to Martin Schulze         <joey@debian.org>,  Paul  Slootman         <paul@debian.org>,  and  Roland
       Rosenfeld         <roland@debian.org> for good suggestions.  Special thanks to Joey, who sent corrections
       to this manual page, that I included after only 109 days.

Copyright

       This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty.  In no event will the authors
       be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

       Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial  applications,
       and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

          1. The  origin  of  this  software  must  not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the
             original software. If you use this  software  in  a  product,  an  acknowledgment  in  the  product
             documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

          2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the
             original software.

          3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

Bugs

       It  is  possible,  that  there  are  a  lot  of  problems  with different versions of the ISTEC firmware.
       Unfortunately these problem are very unlikely to be fixed.  The ISTEC PABX is more or less outdated,  the
       original  author of estic does not support the program anymore and the communication protocol between the
       ISTEC PABX and the PC is not officially specified by the company Emmerich.

       The program is not very UNIXish.  E.g. the keyboard shortcuts are not like those in GNU       Emacs or as
       in vi.  Please send patches if you can fix this.

       Please tell me about grammatical or spelling errors!

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