TDPD(1)

💅 TDPD — the UML Deployment Diagram queen 👑

okay so bestie, welcome to tdpd (manual page TDPD(1), from the General Commands Manual section, iykyk). this is the whole vibe, let's get into it 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

tdpd — Tool for UML Deployment Diagrams 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tdpd [options] [document]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so tdpd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing UML deployment diagrams. literally what it says on the tin, 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. flexible much? 💅

tdpd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). it's giving family, it's giving legacy, it's giving icons only.

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🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

you can call tdpd with a single document name as argument, bestie. one (1) argument. that's the deal.

• if this argument is an existing file → tdpd tries to load a document from it ✨
• if it does not exist → a new document is created with the argument as document name 🆕

tdpd files should have suffix *.dpd. periodt. don't be out here naming things random, the suffix is the moment.

without a document argument, tdpd creates a new empty deployment diagram with the name untitled.dpd. the blank canvas era 😌

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

• -drawing widthxheight — Create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. your canvas, your rules 🎨
• -help — Write all available options to standard output and quit. it's like a little "what can you even do" moment, and then it dips 👋
• -maxdrawing widthxheight — The drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. boundaries, bestie. we love a limit.
• -priv_cmap — Start the editor with a private colormap. private!! exclusive!! main character energy only 👑
• -projdir directory — Set the project directory (current working directory) to directory. home base, relocated 📁
• -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). crossover episode 🔥
• -toPNG file.png — Generate PNG format to file.png and quit. pixels, but make it png 💖
• -toPS [file.ps] — Generate PostScript (to file.ps, or stdout when no file name was given) and quit. yes bestie, it's listed twice in the original. we don't gatekeep, we don't edit, we respect the source. 💀
• -version — Write the TCM version to standard output and quit. tell me who you are and then leave 🫶

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

the TCM_HOME environment variable should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. that's the mothership 🛸

• PATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/bin
• MANPATH — Should include $TCM_HOME/man
• PRINTER — Name of the default printer that is used by tdpd. 🖨️✨
• 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. okay so everything below lives inside the TCM home, got it? 📍

• bin/tdpd — the deployment diagram editor. the whole point 💖
• bin/psf — a program to filter PostScript output. the little helper doing the quiet work 🫶
• 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. 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.
• /tmp/tcmXXXXXX — Pseudo random temporary file, for PostScript output. chaotic file name, iconic behaviour 🌪️
• 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 its own configuration file, installed in $HOME/.tcmrc. your personal touch, your custom era 💅

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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). the moment. the icon. 💜

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🙈 BUGS 🙈

Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. don't suffer in silence bestie, tell them 💌

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and that's the whole page, fr fr — no notes, all details intact, we ate and left no crumbs ✨

cute little sign-off: this one's from the TCM source, dated 2 February 2000, and yes, it really is page TDPD(1) 💖 🦋 🎀