Viewing .mx files (Question)
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- Subject: [mg102822] Viewing .mx files (Question)
- From: dr DanW <dmaxwarren at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:46:05 -0400 (EDT)
Is there a way to make the contents of a Mathematica Binary file (.mx) viewable? I find that the best way to learn to program like a Wolfram programmer (to write functions that are consistent with built-in Mathematica functions) is to look at their code. This was easy when packages were stored as .m files. Now most of the newer packages are shipped in binary format. I am assuming that this is to save disk space and speed loading, not to protect Wolfram's intellectual property. I am not trying to read files stored with Encode[]. I know this is, by design, impossible. I am trying to get a human-readable form of DumpSave[] output files. Daniel