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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Posting schematics...
Message-ID: <1536@sigma.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 19:08:55 GMT
References: <1059@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
Organization: Summation Inc, Kirkland WA
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In article <1059@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz) writes:
>A recurring problem in this news group is the need to post readable
>schematics. ASCII circuit representations are just too painfull to
>create, and are quite inflexible.
>
>WE NEED A STANDARD FOR EXCHANGE OF SCHEMATICS!!!!!!!!!!!
>[...]
>Proposal: If I get sufficient feedback, I will start posting schematics
>in binhexed MacPaint format. 

You'd shut me out for sure. I have no regular access to *any* graphics
capability (unless it's a file of graphics "plot" commands suitable for
dumping to an Epson!)

For simple stuff there's always (ugh!) SPICE format (oh, you said
"readable"..). For more complex circuits, well, I dunno...

-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill