NAME

       linsmith - Smith charting program, designed for educational use.

SYNOPSIS

       linsmith  [-d opts]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  briefly  documents  linsmith.  It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux
       distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.   A  more  complete
       manual is included (in PDF form) with the installation.

       linSmith is a Smith Charting program, mainly designed for educational use.  As such, there
       is an emphasis  on  capabilities  that  improve  the  'showing  the  effect  of'-style  of
       operation.

       It's main features are:
        * Definition of multiple load impedances (at different frequencies)
        *  Addition  of  discrete  (L,  C,  parallel  and  series  LC,  and transformer) and line
       components (open and closed stubs, line segments)
        * Connection in series and parallel
        * Easy experimentation with values using scrollbars
        * A 'virtual' component switches from impedance to  admittance  to  help  explaining  (or
       understanding) parallel components
        * The chart works in real impedances (not normalized ones)
        * Direct view of the result on the screen
        * Ability to generate publication quality Postscript output
        * A 'log' file with textual results at each intermediate step
        *  Load  and  circuit  configuration  is  stored separately, permitting several solutions
       without re-defining the other

OPTIONS

       This program is mainly designed for graphical  use,  and  therefore  does  not  have  many
       options. A summary of options is included below.

       -h, -? Show summary of options.

       -d items
              Enables debugging.  Possible debugging items:
              l - loads
              e - elements
              g - graphics
              p - printing
              m - math
              o - logging

AUTHOR

       linsmith was written by John Coppens.

       This  manual page was written by Margarita Manterola <debian@marga.com.ar>, for the Debian
       project, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.