Annotation of researchv10dc/man/man1/tdc.1, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: .TH TDC 1
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: tdc \- fill out TDC form
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B tdc
        !             6: .PP
        !             7: .B tdc
        !             8: [
        !             9: .B -b
        !            10: ]
        !            11: .PP
        !            12: .B tdc
        !            13: .I bill-info
        !            14: [
        !            15: .I card-info
        !            16: ]
        !            17: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            18: This command will prepare a PostScript job that will produce
        !            19: a standard Telephone Discount Concession form (ATT363) when printed.
        !            20: With no arguments it simply gives usage information on the standard
        !            21: error output.  Option
        !            22: .B -b
        !            23: causes PostScript for a blank form to be generated.  To have the
        !            24: form filled in,
        !            25: .I bill-info
        !            26: and, optionally,
        !            27: .I card-info
        !            28: should be supplied.  Each of these consists of five arguments, with
        !            29: the first set corresponding to the telephone bill and the second set
        !            30: corresponding to AT&T Universal Card calls.  The five arguments are
        !            31: as follows, and must appear in the order shown:
        !            32: .TP
        !            33: .I month
        !            34: Billing month for the bill.  This can be a month abbreviation or
        !            35: a month number.  There is not room on the form for the full month
        !            36: name.
        !            37: .TP
        !            38: .I day 
        !            39: Billing day for the bill.
        !            40: .TP
        !            41: .I year
        !            42: Billing year for the bill.
        !            43: .TP
        !            44: .I amount
        !            45: Total Inter-LATA Toll Charges, including taxes (note that this is
        !            46: not quite the same as section 1 of the form\(emit's just the total
        !            47: amount as it appears on the bill).
        !            48: .TP
        !            49: .I exclusions
        !            50: Total non-eligible charges as defined in section 2 of the form.  The
        !            51: simplest way to compute this is to add the actual charges for all
        !            52: ineligible calls.
        !            53: .PP
        !            54: By default, the information for filling in the form is gleaned from 
        !            55: the file
        !            56: .B $HOME/.tdc.
        !            57: If this file does not exist,
        !            58: .B tdc
        !            59: will prompt you for the name of an alternate
        !            60: .B tdc
        !            61: profile residing in your $HOME directory.
        !            62: This profile should consist of a number of lines, each giving one
        !            63: piece of information for the form.  The format of the lines is
        !            64: an item name followed by the information.  The names and the
        !            65: expected information are:
        !            66: .TP
        !            67: .B firstname
        !            68: Your first name.
        !            69: .TP
        !            70: .B homephone
        !            71: Your home phone number (the one for which you are vouchering
        !            72: the calls).  The format is three numbers, giving area code,
        !            73: exchange and line number, with no extra characters like parenthesis
        !            74: or dashes.
        !            75: .TP
        !            76: .B last8cardno
        !            77: The last 8 digits of your AT&T Universal Card number.
        !            78: .TP
        !            79: .B lastname
        !            80: Your last name.
        !            81: .TP
        !            82: .B middleinitial
        !            83: Your middle initial.
        !            84: .TP
        !            85: .B officephone
        !            86: Your office phone number; see the description of
        !            87: .B homephone
        !            88: for the format of this entry.
        !            89: .TP
        !            90: .B payment
        !            91: How you are paid.  This can be
        !            92: .B weekly,
        !            93: .B bi-weekly,
        !            94: or
        !            95: .B monthly
        !            96: (the default).
        !            97: .TP
        !            98: .B program
        !            99: The program you are in (see item 6 of the form).  The possibilities are
        !           100: .B management
        !           101: (the default),
        !           102: .B occupational1,
        !           103: or
        !           104: .B occupational2.
        !           105: .TP
        !           106: .B ssnumber
        !           107: Your Social Security number, with internal dashes,
        !           108: .B xxx-xx-xxxx .
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .B title
        !           111: Your title.  The default is
        !           112: .B MTS.
        !           113: .PP
        !           114: Some of these have default values, as indicated.  The others will
        !           115: not appear on the form if you don't specify them.  In addition to
        !           116: these values there are five others that are location-specific whose
        !           117: default values are built into
        !           118: .B tdc
        !           119: but which may be overridden in
        !           120: .B $HOME/.tdc.
        !           121: These values are:
        !           122: .TP
        !           123: .B location1
        !           124: .TP
        !           125: .B location2
        !           126: .TP
        !           127: .B location3
        !           128: Three lines of address information for your BL location.
        !           129: .TP
        !           130: .B paycode
        !           131: Your Payroll Unit Code Number.
        !           132: .TP
        !           133: .B tax
        !           134: The tax rate (as a percentage) used on your phone bill.  In New Jersey
        !           135: this is 9 (for 9%).
        !           136: .SH EXAMPLES
        !           137: If you prepare TDC forms for more than one person, you should 
        !           138: keep each person's data in separate 
        !           139: .B .tdc
        !           140: files.
        !           141: For example, one file might be called 
        !           142: .B $HOME/.tdcSmith,
        !           143: and another might be called 
        !           144: .B $HOME/.tdcJones.
        !           145: Then, if
        !           146: .B tdc
        !           147: cannot find 
        !           148: .B $HOME/.tdc,
        !           149: it will prompt for the profile to be used:
        !           150: .IP
        !           151: .EX
        !           152: Enter profile suffix: Smith
        !           153: .EE
        !           154: .PP
        !           155: A typical
        !           156: .B .tdc
        !           157: file might look like this:
        !           158: .IP
        !           159: .EX
        !           160: firstname Joe
        !           161: middleinitial Q.
        !           162: lastname Schlabotnik
        !           163: ssnumber 123-45-6789
        !           164: officephone 908 582 0000
        !           165: homephone 908 999 0000
        !           166: .EE
        !           167: .PP
        !           168: If you are paid weekly and are in the second occupational category of
        !           169: part 6 of the form, you would add these two lines:
        !           170: .IP
        !           171: .EX
        !           172: payment weekly
        !           173: program occupational2
        !           174: .EE
        !           175: .PP
        !           176: A typical usage of
        !           177: .B tdc
        !           178: might be:
        !           179: .IP
        !           180: .EX
        !           181: tdc Dec 26 1992 134.28 15.44 | lp
        !           182: .EE
        !           183: .SH FILES
        !           184: .B $HOME/.tdc*         tdc data profiles

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