---
name: "estic"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "estic"
version: "1.61-20.1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/estic"
---

# estic(1)

Administration program for ISTEC ISDN PABX.

## 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!*