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gschem(1)                       1.8.2.20130925                       gschem(1)

NAME
       gschem - gEDA/gaf Schematic Capture

SYNOPSIS
       gschem [OPTION ...] [--] [FILE ...]

DESCRIPTION
       gschem is a schematic capture application, and is part of the gEDA (GPL
       Electronic Design Automation) toolset.  It is used to draw electronic
       schematics, which describe the logical structure of an circuit.
       Schematics are made up of symbols, which represent the various
       components in the circuit, and are obtained either from a standard
       library or created by the user.  The connections between components
       represented 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.

       gschem can also be used for editing symbols for use in schematics.

OPTIONS
       -q, --quiet
               Quiet mode. Turn off all warnings/notes/messages.

       -v, --verbose
               Verbose mode.  Output all diagnostic information.

       -r, --config-file=FILE
               Specify an additional configuration file.  Normally gschem
               searches for the system configuration file, then
               `$HOME/.gEDA/gschemrc', and finally for a `gschemrc' file in
               the current working directory.  This option allows the user to
               specify an additional rc file which is read after all the other
               rc files have been are read.

       -L DIRECTORY
               Prepend DIRECTORY to the list of directories to be searched for
               Scheme files.

       -s FILE Specify a Scheme script to be executed at startup.

       -c EXPR Specify a Scheme expression to be evaluated at startup.

       -o, --output=FILE
               Specify a filename for PostScript output.  This command line
               argument is useful when running gschem from a shell script and
               with a Scheme script.  The filename can be changed through the
               print dialog box.

       -p      Automatically place the window. This may be useful if running
               gschem from the command line and generating output.

       -h, --help
               Print a help message.

       -V, --version
               Print gschem version information.

       --      Treat all remaining arguments as schematic or symbol filenames.
               Use this if you have a schematic or symbol filename which
               begins with `-'.

SCHEMATIC AND SYMBOL FILES
       Optionally, schematic or symbol FILEs may be specified on the command
       line.  Any schematic or symbols specified are loaded at startup as
       separate documents in the schematic editor.

       If no FILEs are specified, a blank schematic is created for editing.

ENVIRONMENT
       GEDADATA
               specifies the search directory for Scheme and rc files.  The
               default is `${prefix}/share/gEDA'.

       GEDADATARC
               specifies the search directory for rc files.  The default is
               `$GEDADATA'.

AUTHORS
       See the `AUTHORS' file included with this program.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 1999-2011 gEDA Contributors.  License GPLv2+: GNU GPL
       version 2 or later.  Please see the `COPYING' file included with this
       program for full details.

       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
       There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       gnetlist(1), gsymcheck(1)

       The full documentation for gschem is available from within the program
       by selecting the `gEDA Documentation' option from the program's `Help'
       menu.

gEDA Project                 September 25th, 2013                    gschem(1)