Flowchart-ish tool

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:14 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I am trying to create a visual aid for some complex relationships (not software, 
> sorry). It would seem that some flowchart, or similar software, might assist. I 
> need to show the relationships between items and groups of items, and I really 
> don't want to do it by hand.
> 
> Ideally I would identify a group of items as a group, so they could be place 
> near one another or marked with the same color, or similar. Then I want to 
> describe the relationship between them, (ex: 'depends on', or 'funds') and the 
> relationship might look different from each end. Simple example A and B, from A 
> B has relation 'child' while from B A has relation 'parent'. That term 
> 'properties' seems to be used in some things I found, but I haven't gotten a 
> solution.
> 
> Does this ring a bell with anyone? Or even suggest a good manual tool, neither 
> xfig nor gimp is ideal.

yum install dia

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