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From: phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Posting schematics...
Message-ID: <1254@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 88 14:17:08 GMT
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Keywords: schematics EDIF MacPaint HPGL PostScript TeX X-Windows GIF SPICE...

In article <1213@cpocd2.UUCP> howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>>In article <1059@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> phd@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Paul Dietz) writes:
>>>WE NEED A STANDARD FOR EXCHANGE OF SCHEMATICS!!!!!!!!!!!
>Pardon me while I puke.  An ASCIIzed bitmap raster as the standard?  Gack.
(Followed by plug for EDIF...)

Ok gang. I promised myself that I wouldn't post on this subject until
the end of the month. Well here it is, the end of the month...

For those of you who remember, I am conducting a vote on wether we should
encourage posting of MacPaint format files as a TEMPORARY solution to
the schematics problem. Response has been pathetic! More people sent me
email with alternative suggestions, than voted! (By the way, the vote
so far is a resounding "NO!")

I also requested for people who were willing to champion the cause to
step forward, and offer up their services to the group. No one has
come forward.

Ok. So I'm a little disappointed. Almost everyone seems to agree that
we need this sort of a facility, but almost no one can agree on a format.
And what if we all agreed on EDIF tomorrow? Who's going to port it
to the 5 million different net.machines that people expect to be able
to read it on?

This is why I proposed a TEMPORARY, if somewhat inelegant, solution to
the problem. Just to get the ball rolling. But I guess it just wasn't
meant to be.

So, would some kind soul PLEASE come to our rescue?! Does anybody know
a way we can get this thing started without being in a perpetual state
of discussion?

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