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FLAMEROBIN(1)          DragonFly General Commands Manual         FLAMEROBIN(1)


NAME

     flamerobin - management and data manipulation tool for the Firebird DBMS


SYNOPSIS

     flamerobin [-h directory | --home=directory] [-uh directory |
                --user-home=directory]


DESCRIPTION

     flamerobin is a graphical frontend to the Firebird DBMS.  It is small and
     simple, yet offers all the basic features needed to create and manipulate
     databases, execute queries and perform administrative tasks.

     This manual page only documents the run-time options and environment of
     flamerobin.  Information about using the GUI may be obtained by selecting
     the Help -> Manual menu item once the application is running.

     flamerobin uses two directory hierarchies for its normal operation.  The
     data directory contains the templates for property pages, the default
     configuration and the on-line documentation grouped into three sub-
     directories as follows:

     conf-defs       default configuration
     docs            on-line documentation
     html-templates  templates for property pages

     The user home directory contains the per-user configuration, comprising
     three entries:

     fr_databases.conf  this file stores the user's registered databases.
     fr_settings.conf   this file stores the user's preferences related to the
                        flamerobin GUI.
     history            this directory holds the SQL statement history, one
                        item per file.

     flamerobin accepts several options, which are described as follows:

     -h directory
     --home=directory
             Use directory as the data directory (but see ENVIRONMENT below).

     -uh directory
     --user-home=directory
             Use directory as the user home directory (but see ENVIRONMENT and
             CAVEATS below).


ENVIRONMENT

     FR_HOME
             Specifies an alternate location for the flamerobin data
             directory.

             If both -h (or --home) and this environment variable are set, the
             command line argument takes precedence.

     FR_USER_HOME
             Specifies an alternate location for the flamerobin user home
             directory.

             If both -uh (or --user-home) and this environment variable are
             set, the command line argument takes precedence.


FILES

     /usr/share/flamerobin
             The default flamerobin data directory.

     ~/.flamerobin
             The default flamerobin user home directory.


AUTHORS

     flamerobin was written by The FlameRobin Development Team
     <http://www.flamerobin.org/>.


CAVEATS

     flamerobin only writes files under the user home directory.  If
     flamerobin is configured so that this directory and the files contained
     therein are shared among several users or concurrent instances of
     flamerobin, no precaution is taken to avoid overwriting settings created
     by other users or other application instances.


NOTES

     The specification of the data directory and the user home directory
     (regardless of whether they occur in the environment or on the command
     line) may be the literal string "$app" which translates to a common data
     folder determined at compilation time, or "$user" which translates to the
     user local data directory. These options currently have effect only on
     Windows platform.

FlameRobin 0.7                  April 12, 2006                  FlameRobin 0.7

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