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NAME

       tesd - Tool for Entity relationShip Diagrams

SYNOPSIS

       tesd [options] [document]

DESCRIPTION

       tesd  is  an  X11/Motif  based  graphical  editor  for  drawing entity-
       relationship diagrams in an UML-like notation. 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. TESD is the successor of  TERD
       (see terd(1)).

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

ARGUMENTS

       You  can  call  tesd  with a single document name as argument.  If this
       argument is an existing file then tesd tries to load  a  document  from
       it.  If  it does not exist, a new document is created with the argument
       as document name. tesd files should have suffix ’*.ssd’.

       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.

       -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.

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.

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.

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)

AUTHOR

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

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl.

                                9 January 2000