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To install and use the WFDB Software Package successfully, you mustknow how to use the Terminal application and the Unix shell. If youare unfamiliar with Unix commands, please find and study a goodreference on the subject, such as David Pogue's Mac OS X: TheMissing Manual, or Dave Taylor's Learning Unix for Mac OSX (both published by O'Reilly), or get the help of a localexpert.

To install and use the WFDB Software Package successfully, you must know how to use the Terminal application and the Unix shell. If you are unfamiliar with Unix commands, please find and study a good reference on the subject, such as David Pogue's Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, or Dave Taylor's Learning Unix for Mac OS X (both published by O'Reilly), or get the help of a local expert. Safari is a web browser developed by Apple and is included as part of the Apple Macintosh OS X operating system. It has been the default browser on all Apple computers since Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther and its first public release was in 2003. Safari is currently at major version 8 released in October 2014. Bitdefender Virus Scanner for Mac — Best for Quick Detection Bitdefender Virus Scanner for Mac gives 3 basic but detailed scans to choose from. One of the best options is the program’s Critical Locations Scan — looking in places like temporary files, mail documents, and downloads. The service is a social initiative that comes with every desktop product of Quick Heal at no extra cost. Kindly note that, Quick Heal users have to register their Quick Heal Product License key at the TrackMyLaptop portal to avail this facility. Non-Quick Heal users have to register their Laptop's MAC ID.

The WFDB Software Package has been successfully compiled and tested onIntel-based Macs under Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.5(Leopard), and on PPC-based Macs under Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) and10.2 (Jaguar). We have not tested other versions of OS X. Note thatthe XView toolkit needed in order to use WAVE is available for PPC butnot (yet) for Intel-based Macs.

Thanks to Isaac Henry for the original port of the WFDB SoftwarePackage to Mac OS X; to David T. Linker, MD, of the University ofWashington, for providing instructions for compiling WAVE under Mac OSX 10.2 on PPC Macs; and to Prof. Logan Donaldson, of York University(Toronto), for the port of the XView toolkit to Mac OS X 10.0 (PPC)that made David's port of WAVE possible.

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  1. Install XCode, including 'UNIX Development Support'. XCode is a set of software development tools including gcc, make, the libcurl and X11 SDKs, and much more. XCode is available via from http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/.

  2. Open a Terminal (or xterm) window. Type the commands shown in the remaining steps below into this window.

  3. Download and compile the current version of the WFDB Software Package.

    • If your web browser decompressed the archive (Safari does this), use this command to unpack it:

      Otherwise, decompress and unpack with this command:

      Unpacking the archive creates a directory with a name of the form wfdb-10.m.n. Enter this directory:

    • Configure and install the package:

      The sudo command prompts for your password, needed in order to install the package in subdirectories of /usr/local. If you do not have administrative permissions, you may install the package in any writable directory by running make directly, adding an appropriate option:

      Note that in this case you will need to add WFDBROOT/bin to your PATH environment variable.

    • (Optional) Check that the WFDB library and applications have been correctly compiled and installed:

      This step compiles a short program that exercises the WFDB library and prints a summary of test results. Afterwards, the WFDB applications are tested. The tests are very short (typically less than a second each), except that the last one (xform using NETFILES) may take up to a minute if you have a slow or inoperative Internet connection. If any application test fails, its output can be found in the checkpkg subdirectory of the WFDB source tree; compare this output with the files of the same names that can be found in the checkpkg/expected subdirectory.

  4. Read the manuals. Really! :-) If you want to write your own softwareto work with PhysioBank data, begin with the WFDBProgrammer's Guide. To learn about the wide variety of existing softwarethat can be used to study PhysioBank data, read the WFDB Applications Guide and the WAVE User's Guide.

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