Posted by Klaus Brune on 11/02/06 23:03

In article <MPG.1fb2e9a0f5a764d698993a@news-text.blueyonder.co.uk>,
nigel.t@by.uk says...
>
> I want to draw some fairly simple flow charts and process method
> charts to illustrate my PHP site and its local network operation.
>
> I dont need anything clever like code generation or stuff like that.
>
> The problem is I cant find anything (ideally freeware/shareware) that
> runs on win-98
>
> I have corel-9 and MS office 2000 and someone said both of these could do
> it but I cant see how without having to physically draw each box on each
> page and so on.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Nigel.
>
A couple of other charting alternatives... here are two I use
frequently. Whether or not they will suite your purpose will depend on
the complexity and features of your chart...

1) Microsoft Office 2000... Create a new Word document, then from the
Insert menu, select "Object". Scroll down the object types and find
"MS Organizational Chart 2.0" ... one caveat here is that I'm not sure
if this is available in ALL versions of Microsoft Office.

2) Consider using a MindMap as your chart. There are several good
MindMapping programs available. I've used MindManager, Inspiration, and
finally, the free, java-based FreeMind. The last one at the very least
should still run on Win98, assuming you have a relatively recent Java
engine.

http://www.mindjet.com/
http://www.inspiration.com/productinfo/Inspiration/
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind

Plus since we're in a PHP forum here, the PHP/MySQL-based wiki engine,
WikkaWiki, has support for FreeMind built-in...

http://wikkawiki.org

-KGB

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