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Initial check-in based on 2.1.5 (SGI IRIX) source tree.

This directory contains source code for two programs.

The first is 'ivToIncludeFile'
It is used for converting Inventor files into source code
that you can compile into a program.  This is useful if you want to model
an object, then use it as an object in your program.  (This has two 
advantages over reading from a file at runtime. First, there are no extra
files to read in that might potentially get lost.  Second, reading from a 
compiled in binary buffer is faster than reading from an external file).

Given the command line:

ivToIncludeFile foo <  myFile.iv > foo.h

the program will read in myFile.iv (binary or ascii) and write out the file
foo.h, with the following syntax:

const char foo[] = { blah blah blah };

where 'blah blah blah' is a hex version of the contents of myFile.iv, 
translated into binary.



The second program is 'testResults'
This program assumes you have used ivToIncludeFile to create a file
foo.h, containing a variable foo.
It reads the contents of foo under a Separator node and displays it
within an examinerViewer.