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CANopen Manager
5. Additional Tools
The CANopen libraries come with three command line tools to manage CANopen configuration files.
If the target operating system doesn’t support self-hosted development usually these distributions come
with the Win32 versions of these tools.
For a list of arguments and options start the tool without parameters on the command line.
5.1 dcftest
The dcftest tool is intended to verify DCF or EDS file with respect to the related standard /3/. The
CANopen manager library is using the identical parser so you can check beforehand if the network
bootup fails because of errors in a DCF configuration file.
The manager ignores all problems which are indicated as a warning by the dcftest tool.
5.2 dcf2ccf
The dcf2ccf tool is intended to convert a DCF file into a file in the Concise Configuration Format
(CCF) which is specified in /2/. The advantage of this format is the very compact representation of the
configuration data and the faster network bootup as the manager can skip the time consuming step of
parsing the configuration file in DCF format.
5.3 ccfread
The ccfread tool is intended to show the contents of a CANopen device configuration file in the binary
CCF format.
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