.TH patgen 8 "2008-01-08" 
.SH NAME 
patgen \(em Generates a Pattern for a Zaptel Clear Channel Test
.SH SYNOPSIS 
.B patgen 
.I zap-device

.SH DESCRIPTION 
.B patgen
Sends test data to a Zaptel channel. The channel should be of CLEAR
signalling (e.g: B channel of a PRI line). pattest(8) is used to test
the data at the other side.  See its manual for more information.

.B patgen
Must be able to write to the channel. Hence this cannot be used for a
channel used by Asterisk.

.SH OPTIONS
.I zap-device
.RS
A Zaptel device file.
.RE

.SH EXAMPLE
  patgen /dev/zap/5

.SH BUGS
Will not work with channels whose number > 249 as they don't have device
files. For a simple workaround, see ztdiag.c .

.SH SEE ALSO 
pattest(8), ztcfg(8), asterisk(8). 

.SH AUTHOR 

This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> 
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