Building atlc
Author: Dr. David Kirkby
Description: Manual pages for atlc - Arbitrary Transmission Line Calculator from sources.
Keywords: Transmission line calculator atlc

# UNIX manual pages.

The following are HTML versions of the standard UNIX manual pages for a number of programs. Although man pages have been produced, I don't think they are a very good way of explaining how to use `atlc` or some of the other complex programs, although man pages are perfectly adequate for programs such as `coax(1), dualcoax(1) and sysdata(1)`. The HTML documentation is ususally better, but in the tradition of UNIX systems, man pages are present. All the HTML formatted man pages were generated with the aid of man2html by ehood@medusa.acs.uci.edu This has some quite severe problems with some pages, so they don't look too good at all.

- `atlc(1)` This is the main finite-difference calculation routine.
- `coax(1)` Computes impedance of standard coax or eccentric coax. See also `dualcoax(1)`
- `create_bmp_for_circ_in_circ(1)` For a circular conductor inside a circular conductor.
- `create_bmp_for_circ_in_rect(1)` For a circular conductor inside a rectangular one
- `create_bmp_for_rect_in_rect(1)` For quickly generating bitmaps of rectangular conductors inside rectangular conductors.
- `create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect(1)` For quickly generating bitmaps of rectangular conductors placed centrally inside rectangular conductors.
- `create_bmp_for_rect_cen_in_rect_coupler(1)` For quickly generating bitmaps of a coupler with think conductors rectangular conductors placed centrally inside rectangular conductors.
- `create_bmp_for_rect_in_circ(1)` Currently the programme has not been finished
- `create_bmp_for_symmetrical_stripline(1)` For quickly generating bitmaps of thin conductor between two wide groundplanes. Since exact analytical results exist, this is good for testing atlc
- `create_bmp_for_stripline_coupler(1)` For quickly generating bitmaps of directional couplers like this
  Since this structure has an exact analytical result when the conductors are infinitely thin and the groundplanes infinitely wide, it is useful for testing atlc's performance on coupled lines.
- `design_coupler(1)` is quite complex and probably best understood with the use of the HTML-formatted pages, rather than a man page, but one exists for completeness. Running `design_coupler -e` gives a complete example of the use of `design_coupler`.
- `dualcoax(1)` Computes impedance of a coaxial cable with two concentric dielectrics. See also `coax(1)`
- `readbin(1)` For finding information on the binary files produced.
- `sysdata(1)` For gathering some hardware infomation.

atlc is written and supported by Dr. David Kirkby (G8WRB) It it issued under the GNU General Public License
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