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                                  TESD(1)