TSCD(1)

💅 TSCD — the manual, but make it slay ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let's talk about tscd — that's the Tool for UML Statechart Diagrams, and yes it's as iconic as it sounds. This is the TSCD(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and I'm gonna walk you through every single crumb. no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

tscd — Tool for UML Statechart Diagrams. that's it. that's the name. she's simple, she's elegant, she draws statecharts. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tscd [options] [document]

literally just give her options and optionally a document and she goes. main character energy fr fr. 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so tscd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing UML statechart diagrams. drawing. diagrams. graphically. the whole vibe.

Documents can be loaded from and stored to a file — like, round trip, bestie, she remembers your work. 💾

She can also print documents to a PostScript printer, or save as PostScript to a file. so your diagrams can leave the screen and go be physical. iconic behavior.

also!! tscd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). she's not alone, she's in a whole friend group. 🫶

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🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

You can call tscd with a single document name</> as an argument. Here's the tea:

• If that argument is an existing file, tscd tries to load a document from it.
• If it does not exist, a new document is created with that argument as the document name.

and btw, tscd files should have the suffix *.scd. that's the look. 💅

Without a document argument, tscd creates a new empty statechart diagram with the name untitled.scd. she starts fresh, she starts cute. 🌸

On top of the standard X11 toolkit options (peep X11(7) for those), tscd accepts the options listed below 👇

• -drawing widthxheight — Create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. like, decide how much room your art gets. 🎨
• -help — Write all available options to standard output and quit. she will literally list her own options for you, no gatekeeping. ✨
• -maxdrawing widthxheight — The drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. it's a boundary, bestie, respect it. 🚧
• -priv_cmap — Start the editor with a private colormap. fancy colors, just for her. 🌈
• -projdir directory — Set the project directory (current working directory) to directory. she'll work from there now, periodt. 📁
• -toPS [file.ps] — Generate PostScript (to file.ps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. 📄
• -toEPS [file.eps] — Generate EPS (to file.eps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. 🔥
• -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). so you can pass your art around the friend group. 🎀
• -toPNG file.png — Generate PNG format to file.png and quit. png stans rise. 🖼️
• -toPS [file.ps] — Generate PostScript (to file.ps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. yes bestie, she's listed twice — I'm not erasing her, the page says what the page says. 💀
• -version — Write the TCM version to standard output and quit. know your era. 👑

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🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• TCM_HOME — should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. her home base. 🏠
• PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/bin. so the shell can find her. 🛣️
• MANPATH — should include $TCM_HOME/man. so you can find this page. you're welcome. 📖
• PRINTER — name of the default printer that is used by tscd. yes she prints. yes she's got a favorite. 🖨️
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/lib when the distribution contains shared object libraries in $TCM_HOME/lib. library stuff, iykyk. 📚

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💜 FILES 💜

quick note bestie: the following relative files are relative to $TCM_HOME. so mentally prepend that, okay? okay. 💖

• bin/tscd — the statechart diagram editor. that's her!! the girl herself. 👑
• bin/psf — a program to filter PostScript output. the little helper. 🧚
• lib/banner.ps — PostScript banner page that can be used when the printer does not print a banner page. for when your printer is being lazy. 😭
• lib/help/* — The help directory contains a collection of text files for the on-line help. self-explanatory, she's helpful. ✨
• 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. customize her, make her yours. 🎨
• /tmp/tcmXXXXXX — Pseudo random temporary file, for PostScript output. it's temporary, it's random, it's doing its best. 🙈
• 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 morning routine, basically. ☀️
• $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 touch, 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, bestie, it's giving lore. 📚✨

also go say hi to:

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

the whole squad. 🫶

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

David N. Jansen (dnjansen@cs.utwente.nl). thank you for your service, king. 👑

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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!! 19 March 2002, in case you were wondering about her vintage — a certified classic, and the source/version footer is all hers. mwah. 💋✨🌸