NAME¶
llines - LifeLines genealogy program
SYNOPSIS¶
llines [OPTION]...
llines [OPTION]...Database
DESCRIPTION¶
llines invokes the LifeLines genealogy program.
For up to date documentation please refer to the Documentation section of this
man page.
LifeLines is a program to manipulate genealogical information in lineage-linked
GEDCOM format. It has a curses interface, and a built-in interpreter for its
own genealogical report language.
OPTIONS¶
The following options are some of the options available for
llines.
- -C
- Specify configuration file location.
- -F
- Finnish option (only available if compiled with Finnish flag)
- -I
- Specify a user property (e.g. -ILLEDITOR=gvim)
- -a
- Log dynamic memory operation (for debugging)
- -c
- Supply cache values (eg, -ci400,4000f400,4000 sets direct indi & fam
caches to 400, and indirect indi & fam caches to 4000)
- -d
- Developmental/debug mode (signals are not caught)
- -f
- Force open a database (only for use if reader/writer count is wrong)
- -i
- Open database with immutable access (no protection against other access --
for use on read-only media)
- -k
- Always show key values (normally key is not shown if a REFN is shown)
- -l
- Lock (-ly) or unlock (-ln) a database for use with read only media (access
to a locked database is treated as immutable)
- -n
- Do not use traditional family rules
- -o
- Specify program output filename (eg, -o/tmp/mytests)
- -r
- Open database with read-only access (protect against other writer
access)
- -uCOLS,ROWS
- Specify window size (eg, -u120,34 specifies 120 columns by 34 rows)
- -w
- Open database with writeable access (protecte against other reader or
writer access)
- -x
- Execute a single lifelines report program directly
- -z
- Use normal ASCII characters for drawing lines in user interface rather
than the vt100 special characters
- -?
- Display options summary, (on UNIX or Linux use the -h option)
llexec is a version of
llines without the user interface for
non-interactive processing of report programs. (Typically used with the -x
option.)
dbverify is a utility program to verify Lifelines databases. For
information about options, run
dbverify with the -h option.
FILES¶
/etc/lifelines.conf
~/.linesrc
~/lines.cfg
./linesrc
./lines.cfg
Possible locations for Lifelines configuration file
Lifelines looks for a configuration file for various settings. See section
System And User Properties in the userguide for details.
DOCUMENTATION¶
The LifeLines documentation should be installed as part of the installation, and
may also be viewed at the project site:
http://lifelines.sourceforge.net. Look
for ll-userguide and ll-reportmanual (with appropriate extensions for text,
html and pdf formats). The normal installation process includes a large number
of sample report programs that you can customize to suit your needs. In the
directory containing these reports you should find a file named index.html
which gives a very brief summary of each report.
SEE ALSO¶
llexec(1),
dbverify(1),
btedit(1)