LINSMITH(1)

📦 version 0.99.33, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ LINSMITH ✨

okay bestie, welcome to linsmith — the Smith charting program that was literally made for educational use 💖 like, it wants you to play, poke, and watch what happens. Let's get into it.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

linsmith [-d opts]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page is a lil brief rundown of linsmith, fr fr. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program straight up does not have a manual page — not me having to hand-write the whole thing 😭. A more complete manual is included (in PDF form) with the installation, so if you want the full tea, go grab that.

linSmith is a Smith Charting program, mainly designed for educational use. As such, there's a big emphasis on capabilities that improve the 'showing the effect of'-style of operation. It's giving demo mode but make it useful 👑

Its 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

like... multiple solutions without re-defining the other?? that's the main character energy of file organisation 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

This program is mainly designed for graphical use, and therefore does not have many options. A summary of options is included below — short and sweet, just how we like it ✨

  • -h, -? — Show summary of options. your classic "help me pls" move 🫶
  • -d items — Enables debugging. Possible debugging items:
    • l - loads
    • e - elements
    • g - graphics
    • p - printing
    • m - math
    • o - logging
ok so -d is the turn on the behind-the-scenes commentary flag. Pick whichever letters you need and watch the internals spill 🍓

👑 AUTHOR 👑

linsmith was written by John Coppens. king behaviour, no cap 👑

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. iconic. legally iconic 💜

aaaand that's the page bestie!! 🌈 this cutie came out of the Linsmith source, dated November 2005, and it lives in section 1 of the manual. mwah, go chart something pretty 💖✨

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