TESD(1)

💖 tesd — Tool for Entity relationShip Diagrams 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the tesd page 💅 this lives in the General Commands Manual and it's literally the moment you've been waiting for. Grab a snack 🍓, we're drawing entity-relationship diagrams together.

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✨ NAME ✨

tesd — Tool for Entity relationShip Diagrams 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tesd [options] [document]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So tesd is a graphical editor for drawing entity-relationship diagrams in an UML-like notation, and it's built on X11/Motif 🎀. It's giving very much "draw your whole data model and look cute doing it."

Documents can be loaded from and stored to a file, no cap. It can print documents to a PostScript printer, or save as PostScript to a file ✨.

And fun fact bestie: tesd is the successor of TERD (go check terd(1) 👀).

tesd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). iconic.

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

You can call tesd with a single document name as argument 🫶

• If that argument is an existing file, tesd 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, tesd files should have suffix *.ssd 💀 don't forget or it's giving chaos

Without a document argument, tesd creates a new empty ER diagram with the name untitled.esd ✨.

In addition to the standard X11 toolkit options (see X11(7)), tesd 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. 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.
• -version — Write the TCM version to standard output and quit.

yes bestie, -toPS really is listed twice in here 😭 we do not fix, we do not merge, we report faithfully 🫡

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

The TCM_HOME environment variable 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 tesd.
• 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.

• bin/tesd — the entity-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.

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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), terd(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Frank Dehne (frank@cs.vu.nl).

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl 🫶 they want the tea, bestie, so spill it.

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and that's the whole page, slay ✨ this one's from the TESD(1) manual, dated 9 January 2000, and it's giving very much main character energy. periodt 💅