1LINSMITH(1) General Commands Manual LINSMITH(1)
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6 linsmith - Smith charting program, designed for educational use.
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9 linsmith [-d opts]
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12 This manual page briefly documents linsmith. It was written for the
13 Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not
14 have a manual page. A more complete manual is included (in PDF form)
15 with the installation.
16 linSmith is a Smith Charting program, mainly designed for educational
18 use. As such, there is an emphasis on capabilities that improve the
19 'showing the effect of'-style of operation.
20 It's main features are:
22 * Definition of multiple load impedances (at different frequencies)
23 * Addition of discrete (L, C, parallel and series LC, and transformer)
24 and line components (open and closed stubs, line segments)
25 * Connection in series and parallel
26 * Easy experimentation with values using scrollbars
27 * A 'virtual' component switches from impedance to admittance to help
28 explaining (or understanding) parallel components
29 * The chart works in real impedances (not normalized ones)
30 * Direct view of the result on the screen
31 * Ability to generate publication quality Postscript output
32 * A 'log' file with textual results at each intermediate step
33 * Load and circuit configuration is stored separately, permitting sev‐
34 eral solutions without re-defining the other
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37 This program is mainly designed for graphical use, and therefore does
38 not have many options. A summary of options is included below.
39 -h, -? Show summary of options.
41 -d items
43 Enables debugging. Possible debugging items:
44 l - loads
45 e - elements
46 g - graphics
47 p - printing
48 m - math
49 o - logging
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53 linsmith was written by John Coppens.
54 This manual page was written by Margarita Manterola
56 <debian@marga.com.ar>, for the Debian project, and is licensed under
57 the GNU General Public License.
58Linsmith November 2005 LINSMITH(1)