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<h1><a name="gschem_man-page" id="gschem_man-page">gschem man-page</a></h1>
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<pre class="code">gschem(1) 20031231 gschem(1)
NAME
gschem - gEDA/gaf Schematic Capture
SYNOPSIS
gschem [-q] [-v] [-t] [-r rcfilename] [-s scriptfilename] [-o output-
filename] [-p] [schematic1 ... schematicN]
DESCRIPTION
gschem is the schematic capture program which is part gEDA (GPL Elec-
tronic Design Automation) toolset. This program is used to draw elec-
tronic schematics. Schematics consist of standard symbols (which are
either part of a standard library or created by the user) which repre-
sent 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 for-
mats.
gschem 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.
Please read the official documentation (very minimal at this point) on
how to use gschem, since this man page just describes the command line
arguments and a few examples on how to run gschem.
OPTIONS
gschem accepts the following options:
-q Quiet mode on. This mode turns off all warnings/notes/mes-
sages. (optional)
-v Verbose mode on. This mode gives as much feedback to the user
as possible. (optional)
-t 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.
-r filename
Specify a rc filename. Normally gschem searches for the sys-
tem-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)
-s filename
Specify a guile script to be executed at startup. (optional)
-o filename
Specify a filename for postscript output. This command line
argument is useful when running gschem from a shell script and
with a guile script. The filename can be changed through the
print dialog box.
-p Automatically place the window, especially useful if running
gschem from the command line and generating output.
schematic1 [... schematicN]
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 impor-
tant that the schematic(s) follow all the options (ie last).
EXAMPLES
These examples assume that you have a schematic called stack_1.sch in
the current directory
To run gschem and then interact with the program:
./gschem
To run gschem in interactive mode but load a sample schematic:
./gschem adders_1.sch
To run gschem and load up all schematics in the current subdirectory:
./gschem *.sch
ENVIRONMENT
No environment variables are used.
AUTHOR
Ales Hvezda and many others
SEE ALSO
gnetlist(1), gsymcheck(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 1999-2004 Ales Hvezda
This document can be freely redistributed according to the terms of the
GNU General Public License version 2.0
Version December 31st, 2003 gschem(1)</pre>
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