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 # char
acter.
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 syn
tax 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 pre
served).
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 whites
pace as you like.
A section has the format "[" NAME "]". You may use whites
pace 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 file
name is not absolute, it's considered relative to the
directory of the including document. You may use it
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>.
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