Chris wrote:

> It is always awkward to create those darned ascii schematics.

> It strikes me that we can HMTL the schematic into the Email.

> One would have to further assume that most of the participants
> in our Piclist are running their Email software under windows

<asbestos suit on>
Not every computer in the world is a PC running Windows.

I, for one, read my email as text from several locations
via telnet to my office Unix system.  I use PCs when I
have to -- to run PIC programmers.  I use Macs when I can.
ASCII works in all those places.
<asbestos suit off>


Bob wrote:

> I've always had difficulty reading ascii schematics because my
> email gets printed in a font that has variable widths

> I don't have the patience to try deciphering the resultant picture.

So maybe you could select a monospaced font?

                                                Lee Jones