gen_ladder - tool to generate protocol ladder diagrams (C) 2010 by Harald Welte This tool can be used to generate typical ladder diagrams as they are often used in the description of networking protocols. The input file is a ".lad" file, from which gen_ladder.pl generates a graphviz file called ".dot", which in turn can be processed by the "dot" program to generate a .ps (postscript) or .svg output file. As an example, I have included a "test.lad" file, which you can process by calling make test.ps or make test.svg The manual intermediate steps can be seen from the Makefile.