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From: clements@cs.utexas.edu (Paul C. Clements)
Newsgroups: utcs.graphics,comp.lsi.cad,comp.graphics
Subject: standard graphics/CAD file formats?
Keywords: cad graphics files
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Date: 11 Dec 90 22:35:04 GMT
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An ongoing research project at the University of Texas is building a
software engineering tool to let people specify programs in a graphical
language.  The graphs are visually similar to hierarchical flowcharts,
dataflow diagrams, VLSI designs, etc.

Question:  Is there a standard file format that we should be using
to represent the positions of the graph components on the screen?
One that will allow us to interface with other graph-processing 
software that we might find useful?   One that we will find computationally
convenient?  Other reasons?

Replies by e-mail appreciated.   I'll mail a summary of responses to
anyone who's interested (or post if volume warrants it).

Paul C. Clements
University of Texas at Austin
clements@cs.utexas.edu