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From: richardk@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Richard Kottke)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Posting schematics...
Message-ID: <1467@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 88 23:51:58 GMT
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Reply-To: richardk@puff.WISC.EDU (Richard Kottke)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Keywords: schematics HPGL netlist
Summary: I vote for HPGL, netlist


I support the idea of using HPGL to transmit the graphic representation of a
circuit, and an ASCII net description.  Those of you advocating the use of
POSTSCRIPT should remember that while it is a standard, it is a standard for
big machines, and some people (like me) are going to have to write a filter
to convert the uploaded material;  I do not envision myself developing an
enourmous program to interpret POSTSCRIPT files.  HPGL sounds like a format 
that can be easily converted, perhaps in as few as 200 lines of BASIC (please!
no flames.  I have nothing better and am a starving student.)


   -Rich
   Richard Kottke
   richardk@puff.cs.wisc.EDU