This command-line utility extracts ASCII SDL from a binary SDL file, and inserts ASCII SDL back into a binary SDL file. It is useful when you need to hand-edit scene description language files.
Binary files must be used in Alias 12 for rendering, so any file that is converted to ASCII must be converted back to binary format before rendering.
bsdl extract [-f] <text> <binary>
Extract ASCII SDL to <text> from a binary SDL file called <binary>. The file <text> will not be overwritten unless the option -f is specified.
bsdl replace <text> <binary>
Insert the ASCII SDL file <text> into the binary SDL file <binary>, replacing the ASCII SDL data.
To see the help statement for the utility, type
bsdl -h
