binaries?

You refer people to books, the internet is not a replacement for such traditional material.

You stash the diagram on the web, or an ftp site, and include the URL in the message.

You post the diagram to a binary newsgroup, keeping in mind that it is not an efficient method of distributing such information, and as a result such newsgroups are not available on all newsservers.

Michael

alt.binaries.pictures.schematics

1 - Visualization is important in learning 2 - There are ways to draw within the constraints of text

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Tom

Very good question mike. It is difficult sometimes. Others have mentioned some of the ways it is done but often beginners just need an explanation in theory. And for the record, I hate that %$#@ ascii art. Tom

--- Pity...

For a trivial to semi-trivial circuit or a quick picture that's worth maybe 500 words it's hard to beat. Also, a few hundred bytes VS a few hundred K is easy to take.

-- John Fields

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mike

mike

Data density is a good point, but I find longevity of the drawing in the Google Usenet archive

(along with the text of the post) to be an even bigger advantage. Really great data doesn't lose value over time and the ethereal nature of websites makes ASCII diagrams in an archive invaluable.

....then there's the Slashdot Effect

where everybody and his brother tries to access the same (rinky-dink) site at the same time.

John: Note the use of the ellipsis and lower case when starting a thought with a conjunction. 8-)

I fully accept that the problem is on my end John.

Probably dates back to when the profs used to chew me out for printing "Snoopy" calendars on the TTY.

invaluable.

Hmm - that's a subtle grammatical point I've never come across before. Even at the start of the first sentence in a new post by a new author?

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

A conjunction is used to join stuff. It really has no place at the *start* of a sentence. (If you see a conjunction capitalized, it's being used improperly.) The *starting a thought* thing _was_ a bit hyperbolic.