estic(1)

estic1

Administration program for istec isdn pabx.

Usage

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

xestic [-g geometry] [-geometry geometry]

Overview

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.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1–7

-c since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -n since Debian 3.0 (Woody); -p since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

The program has been written by Ullrich von Bassewitz <[email protected]>. The program is no longer maintained by him. Patches by W. Borgert <[email protected]> have been applied. Thanks also to Martin Schulze <[email protected]>, Paul Slootman <[email protected]>, and Roland Rosenfeld <[email protected]> for good suggestions. Special thanks to Joey, who sent corrections to this manual page, that I included after only 109 days.

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 The ISTEC PABX is more or less outdated, the original author of estic does not support the program anymore and the communication protocol between the ISTEC PABX and the PC is not officially specified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!

From estic 1.61-20.1 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.