ASCII Art and drawing packages

There are many tools out there to do graphics design - both bitmap
based and structural. I have never found them good to use, mainly
because I am not an artist. I use "pixmap" (legacy X11 bitmap application)
or MSPaint. (Windows 7 has a much better full featured application for
drawing).

I am bemused by the many ascii art programs out there - a simple
google search will show artwork, webtools and downloadable apps.

What I want is a "JFDI" (Just Flaming Do it!) approach to drawing,
mainly to quickly describe code or process diagrams. I have
started building a "draw" package into CRiSP. Its primitive, but
heres some trivial artwork.

					       o
					    ooo ooo
+--------+				   o	   o
|	 |		     / \	  o	    o
|	 |		   /	 \	  o	    o
|	 |		 /	   \	  o	    o
|	 |	       /	     \	 o	     o
|	 |  +---+    /		       \  o	    o
|	 |  |	|  /			 \o	    o
|	 |  |	|/			  o\	    o
|	 |  |  /___________________________o__	   o
+--------+  +---+			    ooo ooo
					       o

This is what I typed into the command prompt:

box 10 10
box 5 5
triangle 8
circle 6
circle 6

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