TSTD(1)

✨ TSTD(1) ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is the manual page for tstd, which lives in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix. It's the Tool for State Transition Diagrams, and she's iconic, she's serving, she draws little circles with arrows between them. Periodt.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tstd — Tool for State Transition Diagrams 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tstd [options] [diagram]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

tstd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing state transition diagrams. Like, you literally draw them. With a mouse. It's giving 1990s but make it slay. 🔥

Diagrams can be loaded from and stored to a file. She can also print diagrams to a PostScript printer, or save as PostScript to a file. Versatile queen. 👑

tstd is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

You can call tstd with a single diagram name as argument. Here's the vibe check:

• If this argument is an existing file, then tstd tries to load a diagram from it. 🍓
• If it does not exist, a new diagram is created with the argument as diagram name. ✨

tstd files should have suffix *.std. iykyk. 💅

Without a diagram argument, tstd creates a new empty state transition diagram with the name untitled.std. No thoughts, head empty, canvas empty. 🙈

In addition to the standard X11 toolkit options (see X11(7)) tstd accepts the options listed below:

• -drawing widthx*height* — Create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. Manifesting a bigger canvas fr fr. 🎨
• -help — Write all available options to standard output and quit. Your girl tells you everything she knows. 💬
• -maxdrawing widthx*height* — 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. Her colors, her rules. 🌈
• -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). (yes, the parenthesis in the original never closes. we do not perceive it. we move on. 💀)
• -toPNG file.png — Generate PNG format to file.png and quit. Screenshot-able, post-able, iconic. 📸
• -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. Tell me who you are, bestie. 💖

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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 tstd. 🖨️✨
• 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/tstd — the state transition diagram editor. That's her. The main character. 👑
• 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. Your personal 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). 🫶

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. They want to hear from you, bestie, fr fr. 📬

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and that's the whole page, no cap. This one's from the General Commands Manual, dated 9 January 2000, and yes, TSTD(1) is still out here serving state transition diagrams like it's nobody's business. 💅✨ mwah.