TESD(1)TESD(1)NAMEtesd - Tool for Entity relationShip Diagrams
SYNOPSIStesd [options] [document]
DESCRIPTIONtesd is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing entity-rela‐
tionship 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 direc‐
tory.
-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:defi‐
nition'' 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 TESD(1)
