4.2.11 Saving, restoring, and exiting.

You can save the state of your simulation or virtually any part of it. This is done by selecting Object / Save or Object / Save As on the appropriate menu. For example, to save the whole project using its existing project name, you would select Object / Save from the Project window. To save just the network in the file "myxor.net" you would select Object / Save As from the NetView window and then enter the filename "myxor" in the filename field of the popup before clicking Ok. The program will actually save the file as "myxor.net.gz"; the ".gz" suffix indicates that the file has been compressed using `gzip'.

To restore the state of the simulation or some part of it, you can just select Object / Load in the appropriate window. This will load the saved copy of the object over whatever is presently there, effectively destroying whatever was there before. When you first start up the simulator, you can load a project by selecting .project / Open In / Root. This creates a project as a constituent of root and loads the project saved in the file.

At the end of the day, once you've done whatever saving you want to do, you can exit from the simulator by selecting Object / Quit from the Root window.

Now you know how to run the software and you are done with this part of the tutorial. The next section of the tutorial steps through the process of actually building a simulation from scratch instead of loading a "canned" one in.