1FLAMEROBIN(1)            Firebird Administration Tool            FLAMEROBIN(1)
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NAME

4     flamerobin — management and data manipulation tool for the Firebird DBMS
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SYNOPSIS

7     flamerobin [-h directory | --home=directory] [-uh directory |
8                --user-home=directory]
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DESCRIPTION

11     flamerobin is a graphical frontend to the Firebird DBMS.  It is small and
12     simple, yet offers all the basic features needed to create and manipulate
13     databases, execute queries and perform administrative tasks.
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15     This manual page only documents the run-time options and environment of
16     flamerobin.  Information about using the GUI may be obtained by selecting
17     the Help -> Manual menu item once the application is running.
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19     flamerobin uses two directory hierarchies for its normal operation.  The
20     data directory contains the templates for property pages, the default
21     configuration and the on-line documentation grouped into three sub-direc‐
22     tories as follows:
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24     conf-defs       default configuration
25     docs            on-line documentation
26     html-templates  templates for property pages
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28     The user home directory contains the per-user configuration, comprising
29     three entries:
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31     fr_databases.conf  this file stores the user's registered databases.
32     fr_settings.conf   this file stores the user's preferences related to the
33                        flamerobin GUI.
34     history            this directory holds the SQL statement history, one
35                        item per file.
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37     flamerobin accepts several options, which are described as follows:
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39     -h directory
40     --home=directory
41             Use directory as the data directory (but see ENVIRONMENT below).
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43     -uh directory
44     --user-home=directory
45             Use directory as the user home directory (but see ENVIRONMENT and
46             CAVEATS below).
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ENVIRONMENT

49     FR_HOME
50             Specifies an alternate location for the flamerobin data
51             directory.
52
53             If both -h (or --home) and this environment variable are set, the
54             command line argument takes precedence.
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56     FR_USER_HOME
57             Specifies an alternate location for the flamerobin user home
58             directory.
59
60             If both -uh (or --user-home) and this environment variable are
61             set, the command line argument takes precedence.
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FILES

64     /usr/share/flamerobin
65             The default flamerobin data directory.
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67     ~/.flamerobin
68             The default flamerobin user home directory.
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AUTHORS

71     flamerobin was written by The FlameRobin Development Team
72     ⟨http://www.flamerobin.org/⟩.
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CAVEATS

75     flamerobin only writes files under the user home directory.  If
76     flamerobin is configured so that this directory and the files contained
77     therein are shared among several users or concurrent instances of
78     flamerobin, no precaution is taken to avoid overwriting settings created
79     by other users or other application instances.
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NOTES

82     The specification of the data directory and the user home directory
83     (regardless of whether they occur in the environment or on the command
84     line) may be the literal string “$app” which translates to a common data
85     folder determined at compilation time, or “$user” which translates to the
86     user local data directory. These options currently have effect only on
87     Windows platform.
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89FlameRobin 0.7                  April 12, 2006                  FlameRobin 0.7
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