DREAL(1)

📦 version 5.1.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 DREAL(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the ALLIANCE Reference Manual era, this is the dreal page and it's literally about a graphic real layout viewer ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dreal — Graphic real layout viewer. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dreal [-l file_name] [-xor] [-debug] [-install] [-force]

like, that's the whole launch ritual, no cap 🎀

🦋 ORIGIN 🦋

so this software belongs to the ALLIANCE CAD SYSTEM, which was developed by the ASIM team at the LIP6 laboratory of Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, in Paris, France 🇫🇷 (yes, the whole city, iconic).

go ahead and slide into that inbox if you need to 🫶

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Dreal is a hierarchical real layout viewer. every single functionality can be reached through the different menus. Dreal runs under Motif and X11r5. periodt.

when you enter Dreal, the main window shows up and there are 4 different menus chillin' on the top bar. you can open these menus by simply clicking the mouse left button (yes, just click, it's giving effortless). here's the rundown of each menu, bestie:

📁 File

  • Open — load an existing cell. giving "let me pull up my file" energy.
  • Quit — quit dreal. bye bestie 😭

👀 View

  • Zoom — perform zoom in, zoom out, center, fit, refresh on figure. all the zoomie things, obsessed.
  • Layer — select types of layers displayed. choose your layers, main character energy.
  • Map — show cursor position in the entire figure. so you always know where you are 📍
  • Arrows — show arrows for moving at the grid step. lil directional besties ➡️
  • Grid — Set the X,Y step of the grid if displayed.

🛠️ Tools

  • Flatten — flatten the current figure.
  • Message — display the last error messages. the receipts, fr fr 💀

⚙️ Setup

  • Save or load a user defined configuration of default displayed menus. so you can keep your fave setup, slay.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

  • MBK_CATA_LIB — indicates the path to the read only libraries to be used.
  • MBK_WORK_LIB — indicates the path to the read directory for the session.
  • RDS_IN — indicates the file format to be used for the cell.
  • DREAL_TECHNO_NAME (optionnal) — indicates the path to the techno name file used by Dreal.
  • RDS_TECHNO_NAME (optionnal) — indicates the path to the RDS configuration file used by Dreal.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

mbk(1), MBK_CATA_LIB(8), RDS_IN(1), RDS_TECHNO_NAME(1)

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💀 BUG REPORT 💀

this tool is under development at the ASIM department of the LIP6 laboratory.

we need your feedback to improve documentation and tools. so like, please tell us things, we're literally begging 🙈🫶

no cap, this page came out of ASIM/LIP6 back on October 1, 1997, and yeah it's still DREAL(1) at the end of the day. bye bestie, go view some layout 💖✨🎀
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