[SLL] Character based drawing tool

[Paul Franz]

On Fri, March 6, 2009 10:48 pm, Paul Franz wrote:
> I'm looking for a text based drawing tool that will make creating drawings like this
> easy.
>
>
>
>       192.168.1.10  192.168.1.5
>       +----------+  +----------+
>       | Desktop  |  | Server   |
>       +-----+----+  +-----+----+
>             |             |         eth1    eth0   192.168.1.1
>             |             |         +----------+     +----------+
>             +-------------+---------| Firewall |-----| Router   |-- Internet
>                                     +----------+     +----------+
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm not rigid on having it produce a character based drawing. Postscript, html, or png
> output would be fine too. Just that character based makes it easier for inclusion in
> README files and man pages.

The alternative for the documentation I need to generate is to create fancy stuff like
this:

<http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/br_fw_ia/PacketFlow.png>

Whicn is excellent for web based documentation. But a simple ASCII or ASCII line draw
tool would be nice. A long time ago, there were a bunch of them for doing screen
drawings on MS-DOS screens. They used escape sequences to change colors and create
cursor movement. Some of that stuff doesn't work well on standard remote terminal
setups like PuTTY though.

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Paul Franz
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