Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter

Re:Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter by ggerganov on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:04AM (#21670247)

This is a basic web service that I put together this afternoon to generate ASCII diagrams from .dot input. Hope it could be useful to someone.

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Re:Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter by masklinn on Saturday November 30, 2019 @10:57AM (#21670469)

Interesting, why a PHP wrapper to the graph-easy CLI rather than a perl cgi/fcgi/… to the graph-easy library?

edit: sending the graph info via GET is a bit risky though, browsers and servers tend to limit URL size so you might get truncation on the bigger graphs (IIRC IE is the biggest issue with ~1k URLs, not sure if pre-chrome Edge is better or the same, then it's mostly webservers which generally have an 8k default limit on the request-line).

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Re:Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter by ggerganov on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:01AM (#21670484)

Yes, that makes more sense. I just used whatever I was more familiar with to get stuff running

edit: missed "used"

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Re:Show HN: Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter by masklinn on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:34AM (#21670644)

fair enough, 'bout what I was thinking.

Anyway good job, it certainly maximises usefulness for the complexity. Especially good call on using the codemirror editor, I'd have not thought of it but it makes the thing much nicer to use.

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