Flowchart-ish tool

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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