From 4f2a80d23432970870be6e498d286723054147fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Regina Obe Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:40:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?man=20page=20for=20shp2pgsql-gui=20provided=20b?= =?UTF-8?q?y=20M=C3=B2nica=20Ram=C3=ADrez=20Arceda=20and=20=20mwanner?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@11705 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee --- loader/shp2pgsql-gui.1 | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 loader/shp2pgsql-gui.1 diff --git a/loader/shp2pgsql-gui.1 b/loader/shp2pgsql-gui.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..401129ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/loader/shp2pgsql-gui.1 @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +.TH SHP2PGSQL-GUI 1 "January 14, 2012" "" "PostGIS" + +.SH NAME +shp2pgsql-gui \- Graphical User Interface for shp2pgsql + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B shp2pgsql-gui +.RI [ options ] +.br + +.SH DESCRIPTION +This manual page documents briefly the +.B shp2pgsql-gui +command. +.PP +.B shp2pgsql-gui +is a program that converts ESRI Shape files into SQL statements and imports these statements to a PostGIS/PostgreSQL database. The GUI allows the user to set the shape file to import, the PostGIS/PostgreSQL connection parameters and some options related to the table where the data will be imported to. +.PP +.B shp2pgsql-gui +can be called with some command line options that fill the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server connection parameters in. + +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.B -d \fIdatabase\fP +Specifies the name of the database where the data will be imported to. +.TP +.B -h \fIhost\fP +Specifies the host name of the machine on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is running. +.TP +.B -p \fIport\fP +Specifies the TCP port on which the PostGIS/PostgreSQL server is listening for connections. +.TP +.B -U \fIusername\fP +Specifies the username with which the user will connect to the database. +.TP +.B -W \fIpassword\fP +Specifies the password with which the user will connect to the database. +.TP +.B -? +Shows help about shp2pgsql-gui command line arguments. + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +shp2pgsql(1), pgsql2shp(1) + +The documentation of pgsql2shp, shp2pgsql and shp2pgsql-gui in HTML format is available on the filesystem at /usr/share/doc/postgis. + +.SH AUTHOR +shp2pgsql-gui was written by Paul Ramsey and Mark Cave-Ayland . +.PP +This manual page was written by Mònica Ramírez Arceda , for the Debian project. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 and any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. +.PP +On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.