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16 CIF Converter Tools

This chapter is a reference manual for the CIF2SDT and SDT2CIF converter tools. The CIF2SDT tool converts CIF (the Common Interchange Format as defined in the Z.106 recommendation) files to binary format files, while SDT2CIF tool converts binary files or system files to CIF files.

CIF is a human readable text format for storing SDL diagrams, making it possible to store SDL diagrams in version control systems that only accept text files. In addition, it provides a base for converting diagrams to and from other SDL toolsets. The CIF2SDT and SDT2CIF tools bring the advantage of CIF to the SDL Suite tools.


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