The advantages of such a text format are: All the constructs available in SDL-PR are available in SDL-CIF with the exception of the macro call construct. The CIF constructs are expressed as comments preceding the PR code. SDL-CIF is an extension to SDL-PR and is based on the SDL-PR syntax and can be read and written by tools as well as users. ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union) in the recommendation Z.106 to ease the interchange of graphical SDL specifications. Graphical User Interface (Windows only)ĬIF (Common Interchange Format) is a text format specified by.The CIF2SDT and SDT2CIF tools bring the advantage of CIF to the SDT tools. In addition, it provides a base for converting diagrams to and from other SDL toolsets. The CIF2SDT tool converts CIF (the Common Interchange Format as defined in the Z.106 recommendation) files to SDT binary format files, while SDT2CIF tool converts SDT binary files or system files to CIF files.ĬIF 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. This chapter is a reference manual for the CIF2SDT and SDT2CIF converter tools.

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