On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:12:26AM +0100, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: | Hi all! | | I searched the web and asked in some lists. | | But it seems that there is no Linux-utility to draw simple | ascii-figures (lines, text, rectangles, circles) with | cut/copy/paste-capacity in textmode.
If you use GGI as the drawing engine, then you can configure it to use the 'aa' (ascii-art) backend. It is rather funny to start up quake in ascii art. | Such a program would perfect my | 'Textbased-M$-Office-on-a-Linuxbox-World' to easily draw | (more or less) simple ascii-pictures for presentations and | sketches. | | But I am neither firm in programming C/C++ on Debian-Linux | nor able to organize a programming project efficiently. | | * Is there any programmer interested to program such | an utility? | | All I can contribute is a vision and a Turbo-Pascal-DOS-Program | I wrote years before. I don't know if there are any alternate language bindings for libggi yet (it is implemented in C). -D -- Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30