1 .TH gschem 1 "@DATE@" "gEDA Project" @VERSION@
3 gschem - gEDA/gaf Schematic Capture
6 [\fIOPTION\fR...] [--] [\fIFILE\fR...]
10 is a schematic capture application and is part of the
11 gEDA (GPL Electronic Design Automation) toolset. It is used to draw
12 electronic schematics which describe the logical structure of a
13 circuit. Schematics are made up of symbols which represent the
14 various components in the circuit and are obtained either from a
15 standard library or created by the user. The connections between
16 components represented by nets (wires). Schematics may be exported
17 to PDF and PostScript files for printing or to other output formats
18 for further conversion. Output to various image formats is also
22 can also be used for editing symbols for use in
27 \fB-q\fR, \fB--quiet\fR
28 Quiet mode. Turn off all warnings/notes/messages.
30 \fB-v\fR, \fB--verbose\fR
31 Verbose mode. Output all diagnostic information.
33 \fB-r\fR, \fB--config-file\fR=\fIFILE\fR
34 Specify an additional configuration file. Normally \fBgschem\fR
35 searches for the system configuration file, then
36 `$HOME/.gEDA/gschemrc', and finally for a `gschemrc' file in the
37 current working directory. This option allows the user to specify an
38 additional rc file which is read after all the other rc files have
41 \fB-L\fR \fIDIRECTORY\fR
42 Prepend \fIDIRECTORY\fR to the list of directories to be searched for
46 Specify a Scheme script to be executed at startup.
49 Specify a Scheme expression to be evaluated at startup.
51 \fB-o\fR, \fB--output\fR=\fIFILE\fR
52 Specify a filename for PostScript output. This command line argument
53 is useful when running \fBgschem\fR from a shell script and with a
54 Scheme script. The filename can be changed through the print dialog
58 Automatically place the window. This may be useful if running \fBgschem\fR
59 from the command line and generating output.
61 \fB-h\fR, \fB--help\fR
64 \fB-V\fR, \fB--version\fR
65 Print \fBgschem\fR version information.
68 Treat all remaining arguments as schematic or symbol filenames. Use
69 this if you have a schematic or symbol filename which begins with `-'.
71 .SH SCHEMATIC AND SYMBOL FILES
72 Optionally, schematic or symbol \fIFILE\fRs may be specified on the
73 command line. Any schematic or symbols specified are loaded at
74 startup as separate documents in the schematic editor.
76 If no \fIFILE\fRs are specified, a blank schematic is created for
82 specifies the search directory for Scheme and rc files. The default
83 is `${prefix}/share/gEDA'.
86 specifies the search directory for rc files. The default is `$GEDADATA'.
89 specifies the directory to which to write log files. The default is
93 See the `AUTHORS' file included with this program.
97 Copyright \(co 1999-@YEAR@ gEDA Contributors. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL
98 version 2 or later. Please see the `COPYING' file included with this
99 program for full details.
101 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
102 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
105 \fBgnetlist\fR(1), \fBgsymcheck\fR(1)
107 The full documentation for
109 is available from within the program by selecting the `gEDA
110 Documentation' option from the program's `Help' menu.