Comment 0 for bug 698670

The primary function of this program (geda_sch2sym.bsh) is to generate a symbol from a given schematic. In order to do this, it performs two main steps:

1. uses data from a schematic file (*.sch) to create an I/O ports list (*_IO_ports.ini)

2. uses data from an I/O ports list (*_IO_ports.ini) to create a symbol file (*.sym)

Users may choose to perform a single step individually (option 1 or option 2) or perform both steps simultaneously (option 3).

Option 1: sch-->ini
Option 2: ini-->sym

Option 3: sch-->sym

The user is able to configure the symbol default settings in an initialization file (*.ini). Options 1 and 3 require an initialization file (geda_sch2sym.ini) to be located the directory folder containing the schematic file.

Option 1: Create an I/O ports list ini file from a schematic file
(outputs anyname_IO_ports.ini)

   [program path]geda_sch2sym.bsh –p [input path]anyname.sch

Option 2: Create a symbol file from an I/O ports list ini file
(outputs anyname.sym)

   [program path]geda_sch2sym.bsh –t [input path]anyname_IO_ports.ini

Option 3: Create a symbol file from a schematic file
(outputs anyname_IO_ports.ini and anyname.sym)

   [program path]geda_sch2sym.bsh –s [input path]anyname.sch