[SLL] Character based drawing tool

[Paul Franz]

On Sat, March 7, 2009 5:02 pm, Ben. B. wrote:
> Have a look at Asciio off of the CPAN. I've never tried it but I guess it's
> basically Visio but for ascii.

It looks like a nice program. Demonstration video:
<http://perlbuzz.com/2008/04/asciio-lets-you-create-ascii-charts-graphically.html>
Download:
<http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/N/NK/NKH/App-Asciio-1.02.71.tar.gz>
Dependencies;
<http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=App::Asciio;perl=latest>



> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Paul Franz <paul at eucleides.com> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Franz
>> 425.440.9505 (O)
>> 425.241.1618 (C)
>>
>


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Paul Franz
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