The Asterisk Open Source PBX
by Mark Spencer <markster@linux-support.net>
Copyright (C) 1999, Mark Spencer
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* WHAT IS ASTERISK
  Asterisk is an Open Source PBX and telephony toolkit.  It is, in a
sense, middleware between Internet and telephony channels on the bottom,
and Internet and telephony applications at the top.  For more information
on the project itself, please visit the Asterisk home page at:

           http://www.asteriskpbx.com


* REQUIRED COMPONENTS

== Linux ==
  Currently, the Asterisk Open Source PBX is only known to run on the
Linux OS, although it may be portable to other UNIX-like operating systems
as well.

== libaudiofile ==

  If you want to use format_wav module, then you need a very recent
version of libaudiofile (at least version 0.2.0, or you can apply the
following patch to version 0.1.9):