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From Brian Wade, IBM:

This package provides a simple way to draw line drawings in a BookMaster document. The steps are:

• Using XEDIT, draw your picture in a file of filetype BOXES, using these characters for edges, intersections, and arrows:

     box is this:     @---^---\
                      |   |   |
                      "---+---!
                      |   |   |
                      $---_---%
   
     arrows are:  up      [
                  down    ]
                  left    <
                  right   >
  

• Invoke BOX2BMS EXEC, passing as a parameter the filename of the BOXES file (e.g., BOX2BMS MYPIC). This will give you a file of filetype SCRIPT that contains the markup necessary to include your drawing in a BookMaster document via the :cgraphic. tag.

• In your BookMaster document, code like this:

  :cgraphic scale=auto width=80.
  .im (mypic script)
  :ecgraphic.
  

• When you are writing a big document you might have lots of BOXES files all on the same filemode. CVTBOX EXEC converts all of the BOXES files on a given filemode, producing a SCRIPT file for each corresponding BOXES file.

I didn't write this with the intention of giving it away, so don't laugh too hard at the source... but someone asked me recently "how'd you draw that picture" so I thought I would post this package in response to that question.