> If you need some docs, I have an almost complete collection 
> of the DWB SDK documentation that I pulled off of one our old 
> SGI machines.  I also wrote a very simple python script that 
> runs over a DWB database and dumps some information about it 
> (I use it to "diff" two DWB models as the DWB modelling 
> package never seems to be consistent about how it writes out 
> the model at any given time), as well as some old SDK example 
> code for parsing a DWB database from Coryphaeus Software (now 
> defunct).

Wow! Sounds like you've done a lot with DWB since I left SimAuthor a year
ago.

Did you ever find any documentation for (I think they were called) link
nodes? -- the records that specified input variables and the
functions/formulas that tied them to transform nodes/strings/etc within the
model. That was missing in the most current version of the spec I had while
at I was at SimAuthor. Really frustrating as that appeared to be the single
feature of DWB that made it a valuable file format.

If you're asking for permission to distribute this stuff for a DWB plugin
project, you might also investigate whether or not SimAuthor is at liberty
to distribute the RTM code. Lacking a complete and current spec, that old
K&R C code is the best description of the DWB format around.

Best,

Paul Martz
Skew Matrix Software LLC
http://www.skew-matrix.com
303 859 9466

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