TPSD(1)

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💖 TPSD(1) — the process structure diagram bestie 💖

okay so welcome to tpsd, a whole General Commands Manual moment, and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

tpsd — Tool for Process Structure Diagrams. that's it, that's the girl. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tpsd [options] [diagram]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so tpsd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing process structure diagrams, no cap. Diagrams can be loaded from and stored to a file. she can print diagrams to a PostScript printer, or save them as PostScript to a file. versatile queen fr fr. 👑

and psa bestie: tpsd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). iykyk. ✨

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

you can call tpsd with a single diagram name as argument. here's the tea:

  • if that argument is an existing file, then tpsd tries to load a diagram from it.
  • if it does not exist, a new diagram is created with the argument as diagram name.

and bestie, tpsd files should have suffix *.psd. that's the vibe check. 🍓

without a diagram argument, tpsd creates a new empty process structure diagram with the name untitled.psd. default queen behavior honestly.

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

  • -drawing widthxheight — create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. pick your canvas size, main character energy 🌈
  • -help — write all available options to standard output and quit. the little "what can u even do" button 💖
  • -maxdrawing widthxheight — the drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. it's giving boundaries. 🚧
  • -priv_cmap — start the editor with a private colormap. exclusive, lowkey. 💅
  • -projdir directory — set the project directory (current working directory) to directory.
  • -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. pixels bestie 🖼️
  • -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. 🏷️

🌿 ENVIRONMENT 🌿

the TCM_HOME environment variable should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. home is where the TCM is 🏡

  • PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/bin
  • MANPATH — should include $TCM_HOME/man
  • PRINTER — name of the default printer that is used by tpsd.
  • 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. 📂

  • bin/tpsd — the process structure 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). we stan. 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. not me manifesting bugs but okay 🙈 send them over, they'll handle it bestie.

and that's the whole page, gorgeous ✨ this little manual is from the General Commands Manual, dated 9 January 2000, and it's the TPSD(1) page — so like, old but still serving. periodt. 💅

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