llines(1) General Commands Manual llines(1)
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 Sys-
tem 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://life-
lines.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 con-
taining 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)
Lifelines 3.0.61 2007 Aug llines(1)