<!-- Creator : groff version 1.18.1 --> <!-- CreationDate: Sun Oct 4 21:40:28 2009 --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>gschem</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>gschem</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> <a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><br> <a href="#ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a><br> <a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <a href="#COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</a><br> <hr> <a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>gschem - gEDA/gaf Schematic Capture</p> </td> </table> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>gschem</b> [-q] [-v] [-t] [-r rcfilename] [-s scriptfilename] [-o outputfilename] [-p] [-h] [schematic1 ... schematicN]</p> </td> </table> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><i>gschem</i> is the schematic capture program which is part gEDA (GPL Electronic Design Automation) toolset. This program is used to draw electronic schematics. Schematics consist of standard symbols (which are either part of a standard library or created by the user) which represent the various gates and components. These components are then interconnected by nets (wires). Schematics may be printed to a PostScript file for printing or further conversion to other output formats. Output to various image formats is also supported.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><i>gschem</i> is also the symbol creation editor. All the standard methods of creating schematics are used in the creation of symbols. There are a few special rules when creating symbols, so please refer to the (non-existant as of now) symbol creation document.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>Please read the official documentation (very minimal at this point) on how to use <i>gschem</i>, since this man page just describes the command line arguments and a few examples on how to run <i>gschem</i>.</p> </td> </table> <a name="OPTIONS"></a> <h2>OPTIONS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><i>gschem</i> accepts the following options:</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="5%"> <p><b>-q</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Quiet mode on. This mode turns off all warnings/notes/messages. (optional)</p> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="5%"> <p><b>-v</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Verbose mode on. This mode gives as much feedback to the user as possible. (optional)</p> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="5%"> <p><b>-t</b></p> </td> <td width="5%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Print out more information when using mouse strokes. With this command line flag and the middle button configured for mouse strokes, gschem will output the stroke sequence numbers as the user executes strokes. These numbers can be used to define new strokes in the system-gschemrc file.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>-r filename</b></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="23%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Specify a rc filename. Normally <i>gschem</i> searches for the system-gschemrc, then ~/.gEDA/gschemrc, and finally for a gschemrc in the current directory. This options allows the user to specify an additional rc file which is read after all the other rc files are read. (optional)</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>-s filename</b></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="23%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Specify a guile script to be executed at startup. (optional)</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>-o filename</b></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="23%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Specify a filename for postscript output. This command line argument is useful when running <i>gschem</i> from a shell script and with a guile script. The filename can be changed through the print dialog box.</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="4%"> <p><b>-p</b></p> </td> <td width="7%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Automatically place the window, especially useful if running gschem from the command line and generating output.</p> </td> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="4%"> <p><b>-h</b></p> </td> <td width="7%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Print out short command line help.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>schematic1 [... schematicN]</b></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="23%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>Schematic file to be loaded. Specifing a schematic file is optional. If multiple schematic files are specified they are read in sequentially and put on seperate pages. It is important that the schematic(s) follow all the options (ie last).</p> </td> </table> <a name="EXAMPLES"></a> <h2>EXAMPLES</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>These examples assume that you have a schematic called stack_1.sch in the current directory</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p>To run <i>gschem</i> and then interact with the program:</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="7%"></td> <td width="92%"> <p>gschem</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>To run <i>gschem</i> in interactive mode but load a sample schematic:</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="7%"></td> <td width="92%"> <p>gschem adders_1.sch</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>To run <i>gschem</i> and load up all schematics in the current subdirectory:</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="7%"></td> <td width="92%"> <p>gschem *.sch</p> </td> </table> <a name="ENVIRONMENT"></a> <h2>ENVIRONMENT</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><i>gschem</i> respects the following environment variable:</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>GEDADATA</b></p></td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="23%"></td> <td width="76%"> <p>specifies where the various required scheme and rc files are located (the default is ${prefix}/share/gEDA). This environment variables does not need to be set by the end user unless they are moving the executables to a new install ${prefix}.</p> </td> </table> <a name="AUTHOR"></a> <h2>AUTHOR</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>Ales Hvezda and many others</p> </td> </table> <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>gnetlist</b>(1), <b>gsymcheck</b>(1)</p> </td> </table> <a name="COPYRIGHT"></a> <h2>COPYRIGHT</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <pre>Copyright © 1999-2008 Ales Hvezda This document can be freely redistributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.0 </pre> <hr> </body> </html>