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How to open the .cxt file?

Renee
Renee over 15 years ago

Hi,

 How can I open the .cxt file to read?  How can I produce a .cxt file?

Thank you very much!

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    Andrew Beckett over 15 years ago

    You can't read the contents of the .cxt (well, you can read it, but you probably can't understand it!). It's a binary file, which is an incremental snapshot of the SKILL virtual machine; in effect it's the compiled virtual machine code for the SKILL it contains.

    As for creating them yourself, this is covered in the SKILL Language User Guide. Look at this in cdnshelp (or cdsdoc in older releases), or just open <ICinstDir>/doc/sklanguser/sklanguser.pdf and look at the chapter "Delivering Products" (chapter 10 in IC5141).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett
    Andrew Beckett over 15 years ago

    You can't read the contents of the .cxt (well, you can read it, but you probably can't understand it!). It's a binary file, which is an incremental snapshot of the SKILL virtual machine; in effect it's the compiled virtual machine code for the SKILL it contains.

    As for creating them yourself, this is covered in the SKILL Language User Guide. Look at this in cdnshelp (or cdsdoc in older releases), or just open <ICinstDir>/doc/sklanguser/sklanguser.pdf and look at the chapter "Delivering Products" (chapter 10 in IC5141).

    Regards,

    Andrew.

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