This appendix briefly describes how to install the DB Software Package
on a new system. The package includes C-language sources for the DB
library and for a variety of applications (see section DB Application Programs),
TeX source for this manual, troff source for UNIX man
pages for the package, and a one-minute sample record (`100s').
Except for UNIX-specific and MS-DOS-specific visualization programs and
an MS-DOS-specific digitization/replay program, all of the software is
portable between UNIX and MS-DOS, and is usable under VMS and on the
Macintosh with only minor modifications.
The package is included on the second edition of the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database CD-ROM (which also includes a version of WAVE for Sun SPARCstations), and is also available separately on 1.44 Mb 3.5" floppy diskettes. For information on obtaining the latest version of the DB Software Package, see section Sources.
The DB library is provided in precompiled form for MS-DOS users, together with the `include' (`.h') files needed to use it, on several other CD-ROMs that contain databases of ECGs and other signals, including the first edition of the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database CD-ROM, both editions of the European ST-T Database CD-ROM and the MIT-BIH Polysomnographic Database CD-ROM, and on the MGH/Marquette Foundation Waveform Database CD-ROMs (see section Sources). These CD-ROMs do not include the DB applications included in the DB Software Package. To use the precompiled DB library, you must compile and link your own programs with it using the Microsoft C compiler (or another compiler/linker that is compatible with Microsoft `.lib' libraries). If you have only a CD-ROM with MS-DOS binaries, and have not obtained the DB Software Package, see the files `readme.doc' (in the root directory of the CD-ROM) and `lib.doc' (in the `lib' directory) for information about using the precompiled DB library, and check `lib\ecg\db.h' to see which DB library version is on your CD-ROM.
On more recent (1995 and later) CD-ROMs, the DB Software Package is provided
in source form within `software/db', in precompiled binary form for
MS-DOS within `software/msdos', and as tar archives (named
software/xxx.tar) containing precompiled binaries
for several versions of UNIX. The DB Browser for MS Windows
(`wview') is provided on these CD-ROMs in binary form only, within
software/msdos. WAVE is also provided on these CD-ROMs in
binary form only, within the tar archives for those versions of
UNIX under which WAVE runs (as of mid-1995, these included SunOS
4.x, SPARC Solaris 2.x, and Linux). If you are installing the DB
Software Package from one of these CD-ROMs, first review the general
notes in `software/README.TXT', then follow the specific
instructions for your operating system found in:
The remainder of this appendix refers only to the diskette and the August 1992 CD-ROM distributions.
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