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

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)