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NAME
tdc - fill out TDC form
SYNOPSIS
tdc
tdc [ -b ]
tdc bill-info [ card-info ]
DESCRIPTION
This command will prepare a PostScript job that will produce
a standard Telephone Discount Concession form (ATT363) when
printed. With no arguments it simply gives usage informa-
tion on the standard error output. Option -b causes
PostScript for a blank form to be generated. To have the
form filled in, bill-info and, optionally, card-info should
be supplied. Each of these consists of five arguments, with
the first set corresponding to the telephone bill and the
second set corresponding to AT&T Universal Card calls. The
five arguments are as follows, and must appear in the order
shown:
month
Billing month for the bill. This can be a month abbre-
viation or a month number. There is not room on the
form for the full month name.
day Billing day for the bill.
year Billing year for the bill.
amount
Total Inter-LATA Toll Charges, including taxes (note
that this is not quite the same as section 1 of the
form-it's just the total amount as it appears on the
bill).
exclusions
Total non-eligible charges as defined in section 2 of
the form. The simplest way to compute this is to add
the actual charges for all ineligible calls.
By default, the information for filling in the form is
gleaned from the file $HOME/.tdc. If this file does not
exist, tdc will prompt you for the name of an alternate tdc
profile residing in your $HOME directory. This profile
should consist of a number of lines, each giving one piece
of information for the form. The format of the lines is an
item name followed by the information. The names and the
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expected information are:
firstname
Your first name.
homephone
Your home phone number (the one for which you are
vouchering the calls). The format is three numbers,
giving area code, exchange and line number, with no
extra characters like parenthesis or dashes.
last8cardno
The last 8 digits of your AT&T Universal Card number.
lastname
Your last name.
middleinitial
Your middle initial.
officephone
Your office phone number; see the description of
homephone for the format of this entry.
payment
How you are paid. This can be weekly, bi-weekly, or
monthly (the default).
program
The program you are in (see item 6 of the form). The
possibilities are management (the default),
occupational1, or occupational2.
ssnumber
Your Social Security number, with internal dashes,
xxx-xx-xxxx .
title
Your title. The default is MTS.
Some of these have default values, as indicated. The others
will not appear on the form if you don't specify them. In
addition to these values there are five others that are
location-specific whose default values are built into tdc
but which may be overridden in $HOME/.tdc. These values are:
location1
location2
location3
Three lines of address information for your BL
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location.
paycode
Your Payroll Unit Code Number.
tax The tax rate (as a percentage) used on your phone bill.
In New Jersey this is 9 (for 9%).
EXAMPLES
If you prepare TDC forms for more than one person, you
should keep each person's data in separate .tdc files. For
example, one file might be called $HOME/.tdcSmith, and
another might be called $HOME/.tdcJones. Then, if tdc cannot
find $HOME/.tdc, it will prompt for the profile to be used:
Enter profile suffix: Smith
A typical .tdc file might look like this:
firstname Joe
middleinitial Q.
lastname Schlabotnik
ssnumber 123-45-6789
officephone 908 582 0000
homephone 908 999 0000
If you are paid weekly and are in the second occupational
category of part 6 of the form, you would add these two
lines:
payment weekly
program occupational2
A typical usage of tdc might be:
tdc Dec 26 1992 134.28 15.44 | lp
FILES
$HOME/.tdc* tdc data profiles