TCBD(1)

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General Commands Manual · the one and only <code>tcbd</code> ✨

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🎀 NAME 🎀

tcbd — bestie, it's the Tool for UML Collaboration Diagrams 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tcbd [options] [document]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so tcbd is a graphical editor for drawing UML collaboration diagrams, and it's built on X11/Motif, which is giving vintage-but-slay, no cap 🫶

Documents can be loaded from and stored to a file. It can print documents to a PostScript printer or save as PostScript to a file. Versatile queen 👑

also, tcbd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM) — iykyk 💜

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

You can call tcbd with a single document name as argument. Here's the vibe check on what happens next:

• If that argument is an existing file, then tcbd tries to load a document from it 📂
• If it does not exist, a new document is created with the argument as the document name ✨

bestie pls note: tcbd files should have suffix *.cbd — that's the whole look 💅

Without a document argument, tcbd creates a new empty collaboration diagram with the name untitled.cbd. iconic default behaviour honestly 🎀

In addition to the standard X11 toolkit options (see X11(7)), tcbd accepts the options listed below:

• -drawing widthx*height* — Create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. sizing yourself up fr fr 📐
• -help — Write all available options to standard output and quit. the "just tell me everything" option 🫶
• -maxdrawing widthx*height* — The drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. it's giving boundaries, and honestly? healthy 🚧
• -priv_cmap — Start the editor with a private colormap. exclusive colour moment 👑
• -projdir directory — Set the project directory (current working directory) to directory. relocate, rebrand, slay 📁
• -toPS [file.ps] — Generate PostScript (to file.ps or stdout when no file name was given) and quit. print-and-dip 💨
• -toEPS [file.eps] — Generate EPS (to file.eps or stdout when no file name was given) and quit. EPS said "I'm the moment" 🔥
• -toFig [file.fig] [-latex] — Generate Fig format (to file.fig or stdout when no file name was given and quit. When the -latex option is given, LaTeX fonts are generated, otherwise normal PostScript fonts are generated. The Fig format can be read by xfig(1) and fig2dev(1) 🦋
• -toPNG file.png — Generate PNG format to file.png and quit. png bestie we love a portable network graphic 🌈
• -toPS [file.ps] — Generate PostScript (to file.ps or stdout when no file name was given) and quit. yes babes, it's listed again — the original said it twice so I'm saying it twice, periodt 💅
• -version — Write the TCM version to standard output and quit. main character reveals her age 💀

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

The TCM_HOME environment variable should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. home base 🏠

• PATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/bin so your shell can actually find her 🫶
• MANPATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/man for all the lore 📖
• PRINTER — Name of the default printer that is used by tcbd. who's printing? her 🖨️
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/lib when the distribution contains shared object libraries in $TCM_HOME/lib 🔗

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💜 FILES 💜

The following relative files are relative to $TCM_HOME. keep that in mind bestie, it's the whole key 🗝️

• bin/tcbd — the collaboration diagram editor. that's her. that's the girl 🌟
• bin/psf — a program to filter PostScript output 🌀
• lib/banner.ps — PostScript banner page that can be used when the printer does not print a banner page. for when your printer is doing the least 🎀
• lib/help/* — The help directory contains a collection of text files for the on-line help. self-help era 🙈
• lib/TCM — X Resources (the same as the ones that are built-in). You can customize the fonts and colors by setting resources in your X defaults database. Each string of the form `TCM.resource:definition` sets a resource. make it yours 💅
• /tmp/tcmXXXXXX — Pseudo random temporary file, for PostScript output. temporary queen, here for a good time not a long time ✨
• lib/tcm.conf — TCM editor configuration file. This file contains values for some of the editor defaults like the page size, the default fonts etc. This file is read by each editor upon startup. the blueprint 📜
• $HOME/.tcmrc — Each user of TCM can override some of the options of tcm.conf by its own configuration file, installed in $HOME/.tcmrc. personalization is self-care 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Frank Dehne, Roel Wieringa and Henk van de Zandschulp — TCM (Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling), User's Guide and Reference. This document is available as PostScript and HTML in $TCM_HOME/doc or as HTML via the URL http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/tcm-usersguide.html. go read the extended lore 📚

• tcm(1)
• X11(7)
• xfig(1)
• fig2dev(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Henk van de Zandschulp (tcm@cs.utwente.nl). thank you king 🫶

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. not me manifesting a bug-free life but okay, if it happens, tell the man 💅

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cute little sign-off 🎀 — this page came to you from the General Commands Manual, dated 8 February 2002, and it is, always and forever, TCBD(1). bye bestie, go draw some collaboration diagrams 💖✨🦋