Copy the contents of http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wfdb/ to your hard disk. Note that the text files are in UNIX format (i.e., lines are terminated by ASCII line-feed characters only). If your system expects text files in MS-DOS format (with both a carriage return and a line-feed at the end of each line; VMS is one such system), use u2d.exe (available from PhysioNet) to reformat the text files under MS-DOS. If your system is a Macintosh (which expects that lines are terminated by carriage returns only), you will have to reformat the text files yourself, which may be done under MS-DOS on a PC using u2m.exe, or on a Macintosh using third-party software.
The WFDB Software Package is written in highly portable C, and (with the
exception of a few MS-DOS or UNIX-specific display or data-acquisition
programs) should be easy to compile with any K&R or ANSI C compiler.
The UNIX and MS-DOS make description files (Makefile
and Makefile.dos in wfdb and in each of its subdirectories)
should get you started.
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PhysioNetUpdated 24 February 2003