TCPD(1)

💖 TCPD(1) — the tcpd girlies' manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the tcpd page from the General Commands Manual ✨ buckle up, this one's a whole vibe

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✨ NAME ✨

tcpd — the tool for UML Component Diagrams 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tcpd [options] [document]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so tcpd is literally an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing UML component diagrams. it's giving main character energy fr fr 💅

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. so many options, we love that for us 🎀

tcpd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). periodt.

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

so you can call tcpd with a single document name as argument, no cap:

• if this argument is an existing file, then tcpd tries to load a document from it 🌈
• if it does not exist, a new document is created with the argument as document name ✨

tcpd files should have suffix *.cpd. iykyk 🫶

without a document argument, tcpd creates a new empty component diagram with the name untitled.cpd. iconic default behaviour honestly.

in addition to the standard X11 toolkit options (see X11(7)), tcpd accepts the options listed below 👇

• -drawing widthx*height* — create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high 🖼️
• -help — write all available options to standard output and quit. the way that this just tells you everything you need 💀
• -maxdrawing widthx*height* — the drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. boundaries, bestie ✋
• -priv_cmap — start the editor with a private colormap 🎨
• -projdir directory — set the project directory (current working directory) to directory 📁
• -toPS [file.ps] — generate PostScript (to file.ps, or stdout when no file name was given) and quit 🖨️
• -toEPS [file.eps] — generate EPS (to file.eps, or stdout when no file name was given) and quit ✨
• -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 🖼️
• -toPS [file.ps] — generate PostScript (to file.ps, or stdout when no file name was given) and quit. yes bestie, it's here twice, we're not playing 🙈
• -version — write the TCM version to standard output and quit ⭐

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

the TCM_HOME environment variable should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. she's the blueprint, okay 💅

• PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/bin
• MANPATH — should include $TCM_HOME/man
• PRINTER — name of the default printer that is used by tcpd 🖨️
• 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 🫶

• bin/tcpd — the component diagram editor 👑
• 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 🎀
• lib/help/* — the help directory contains a collection of text files for the on-line help 📚
• 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 🎨
• /tmp/tcmXXXXXX — pseudo random temporary file, for PostScript output 📄
• 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 ⚙️
• $HOME/.tcmrc — each user of TCM can override some of the options of tcm.conf by its own configuration file, installed in $HOME/.tcmrc 💖

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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 📖

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

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

Frank Dehne (frank@cs.vu.nl). thank you for your service king 👑

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😭 BUGS 😭

please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. don't be shy, they wanna hear from you fr fr 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from 2 February 2000, and yeah it's the TCPD(1) page — go draw some component diagrams and slay 💖✨🎀🦋