TCRD(1)

🦋 TCRD(1) 🦋 — the general commands manual, but make it cute

okay so this is TCRD(1), straight out of the General Commands Manual, and it's giving "graphical editor that actually slays" 💅

---

💖 NAME 💖

tcrd — Tool for Class-Relationship Diagrams. that's it, that's the name, no cap ✨

---

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tcrd [options] [document]

---

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

tcrd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing class-relationship diagrams. bestie, it draws diagrams, it's iconic. 🫶

Documents can be loaded from and stored to a file. it can also print documents to a PostScript printer, or save as PostScript to a file. so many options, so much main character energy.

tcrd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). 🎀

---

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

You can call tcrd with a single document name as argument.

• if that argument is an existing file → tcrd tries to load a document from it. easy.
• if it does not exist → a new document is created with the argument as document name. new doc, who dis 💅

tcrd files should have suffix *.crd. periodt.

Without a document argument, tcrd creates a new empty class-relationship diagram with the name untitled.crd. it's giving "blank canvas, limitless potential" 🌈

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

• -drawing widthxheight — Create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high.
• -help — Write all available options to standard output and quit.
• -maxdrawing widthxheight — The drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high.
• -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.
• -version — Write the TCM version to standard output and quit.

not me noticing -toPS shows up twice in this list 😭 yeah, bestie, it's literally listed two times in the original page, so it's listed two times here. i don't make the rules, i just keep every single detail fr fr 💀

---

🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• TCM_HOME — should be the directory where the TCM files are installed.
• PATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/bin
• MANPATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/man
• PRINTER — Name of the default printer that is used by tcrd.
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/lib when the distribution contains shared object libraries in $TCM_HOME/lib.

---

🍓 FILES 🍓

The following relative files are relative to $TCM_HOME. ok so vibe check your home dir first 🏠

• bin/tcrd — the class relationship 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.

---

🔥 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)

---

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Frank Dehne (frank@cs.vu.nl). 🫶

---

💀 BUGS 💀

Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. tell them everything bestie, they wanna know 🙈

---

and that's the whole page!! ✨ this version of the page is dated 09 January 2000, and it comes from TCRD(1) in the General Commands Manual — so yeah, it's giving vintage, it's giving retro-tech, and it absolutely ate. mwah 💅🎀💖