TDFD(1)

💖 TDFD(1) — the data flow diagram era 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about tdfd, a manual page living in the General Commands Manual section (that's section 1, iykyk). she's a whole vibe and she's about to change your diagramming life. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

tdfd — Tool for Data Flow Diagrams. that's it, that's the name, no notes. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tdfd [options] [diagram]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

tdfd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing data flow diagrams. literally, you draw, she renders, everyone wins. ✨

Diagrams can be loaded from and stored to a file. she can also print diagrams to a PostScript printer, or save them as PostScript to a file. no cap.

tdfd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). yes, the whole fam. 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

You can call tdfd with a single diagram name as argument. here's the tea on how she handles it:

• If this argument is an existing file, then tdfd tries to load a diagram from it.
• If it does not exist, a new diagram is created with the argument as diagram name.
• tdfd files should have suffix *.dfd. respectfully. 🍓

Without a diagram argument, tdfd creates a new empty data flow diagram with the name untitled.dfd. classic untitled era, we've all been there. 💀

In addition to the standard X11 toolkit options (see X11(7)), tdfd accepts the options listed below. buckle up bestie, here they come 👇

• -drawing widthx*height* — Create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. it's giving canvas, it's giving space to be your main character. 🎨
• -help — Write all available options to standard output and quit. she's an open book, fr fr.
• -maxdrawing widthx*height* — The drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. boundaries, bestie. we love them. ✋
• -priv_cmap — Start the editor with a private colormap. her colors, her rules. 🌈
• -projdir directory — Set the project directory (current working directory) to directory. it's a glow-up for your cwd. ✨
• -toEPS [file.eps] — Generate EPS (to file.eps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. one and done. 💅
• -toFig [file.fig] [-latex] — Generate Fig format (to file.fig, or to 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). cross-platform friendship, we stan. 🫶
• -toPNG file.png — Generate PNG format to file.png and quit. png girlies rise 🙈
• -toPS [file.ps] — Generate PostScript (to file.ps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. old school and iconic.
• -version — Write the TCM version to standard output and quit. who is she? she'll tell you. 💖

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• TCM_HOME — should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. her home, her address, don't lose it.
• PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/bin
• MANPATH — should include $TCM_HOME/man
• PRINTER — name of the default printer that is used by tdfd. tell her where to send the goods. 🖨️
• 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. yes, all of them, no skips.

• bin/tdfd — the data flow diagram editor. the moment. the icon. 👑
• bin/psf — a program to filter PostScript output. she's the filter era.
• lib/banner.ps — PostScript banner page that can be used when the printer does not print a banner page. dramatic entrance, on paper. 🎀
• lib/help/* — the help directory contains a collection of text files for the on-line help. ask her anything bestie.
• 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. glow-up via config, obsessed. ✨
• /tmp/tcmXXXXXX — pseudo random temporary file, for PostScript output. she's mysterious, she's temporary, she's in /tmp. 💀
• 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, fr fr.
• $HOME/.tcmrc — each user of TCM can override some of the options of tcm.conf by its own configuration file, installed in $HOME/.tcmrc. your personal era, your personal file. 🦋

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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 it, it's giving lore. 📚

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

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💅 AUTHOR 💅

Frank Dehne (frank@cs.vu.nl). the original icon, the blueprint, the moment. 🫶

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😭 BUGS 😭

Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. not me gatekeeping, but like, please do actually send them. 🙈

no cap, if something's broken, tell the people. they want to know. 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie — signed off from the 9 January 2000 era, TDFD(1) edition. slay, print it, diagram something gorgeous, and stay hydrated. 🎀✨💅