Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!apollo!rees
From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Posting schematics...
Message-ID: <3ac11e80.b8ab@apollo.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 88 19:02:00 GMT
References: <1059@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <5698@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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Keywords: schematics

I've often thought that usenet needs a way of transmitting graphics,
and that at least the viewing ought to be built into the news reader.

Unix already has a standard for graphics output (see plot(5)).  It's
so incredibly low-tech that it would be trivial to implement even
on non-unix systems in just about any news reader that talks to a
device capable of any kind of graphics.  And output translators are
available in the public domain for a variety of devices.

I've been meaning (for about 4 years) to put together a working
example, in my copious spare time...