From: Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:40:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: man page for shp2pgsql-gui provided by Mònica Ramírez Arceda and  mwanner
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man page for shp2pgsql-gui provided by Mònica Ramírez Arceda and  mwanner

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+.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 <pramsey@opengeo.org> and Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk>.
+.PP
+This manual page was written by Mònica Ramírez Arceda <monica@probeta.net>, 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.