User Guide

Expanding Library Definitions into Text Files
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Expanding Library Definitions
into Text Files
When you use LXCWin to expand a library, it reads the
selected library line by line, and writes each definition of
a symbol (.sym), package (.pkg), or footprint (.fpd) in
plain ASCII format, to a text file. It also creates a
.lst file,
detailing the file name and the corresponding definition
name.
To expand a library into individual definition files:
1 From the Action frame, select Expand.
2 Click the Process File button.
3 Select a library.
Compressing Definition Files into
a Library
When you use LXCWin to compress definitions it reads
the
.lst file (a file of the same name as the library you
selected), and packs each listed file into a selected library,
in the order read. Thus, symbol, package, and footprint
libraries can be built from files generated by another
process.
To compress individual definition files into a library:
1 In the Action frame, select Compress.
2 Click the Process File button.
3 Specify a library.
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