If you would like to read signal files within a C, C++, Fortran, Java, Perl, or Python program, see the WFDB Programmer's Guide for information on doing this using the WFDB library. Other programming languages supported by SWIG may also be usable with the WFDB library, but have not been tested. Briefly, use isigopen() to open the files, and getvec() to read them.

You can't in general, because Matlab doesn't know how to figure out which of the many supported formats is used in any given signal file, because it can't understand the most commonly used formats in any case, and because (in many cases) signal files are orders of magnitude larger than any matrix that Matlab can handle. See How can I read signal files? for a variety of ways to read signal files from Matlab without using its import feature.

You can't, because Excel doesn't know how to figure out which of the many supported formats is used in any given signal file, because it can't understand any of those formats in any case, and because signal files are almost always orders of magnitude larger than any spreadsheet that Excel can handle. Spreadsheets are not suitable for studying, visualizing, or analyzing digitized signals; many better tools are freely available in PhysioToolkit.

Many formats are supported. Most signal files are written in "format 212", in which two 12-bit samples are bit-packed into three 8-bit bytes. See signal(5) in the WFDB Applications Guide for details on format 212 and on the other supported formats. To determine which format is used for a given signal file, look in the associated header file. (This is a text file that usually has the same name as the signal file, except for a suffix of .hea instead of .dat.

If you would like to read annotation files within a C, C++, Fortran, Java, Perl, or Python program, see the WFDB Programmer's Guide. Other programming languages supported by SWIG may also be usable with the WFDB library, but have not been tested. Briefly, use annopen() to open the files, and getann() to read annotations from them.

pipe-delimited text (.txt) format files (OTCBB Symbol Directory, Daily List, Monthly Share Volume, etc.); self-extracting ZIP (.exe) files that expand into pipe-delimited text format files (Monthly Share Volume Report, Market Maker List, Other-OTC Symbol Directory, etc.). This information will need to be saved to your computer. Select File from the menu bar, then select the Save As... option You can now import the data into a spreadsheet or database.

Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) reproduces the exact look of a printed page and is used for documents that could not be readily deployed in hypertext markup language (HTML)--the "typeset" format that is designed for web browsers--or in the plain "typewriter" text of ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). Also, the document may be offered in PDF along with one or both of the other two formats.

From version 9.0, PowerArchiver supports the latest ZIP AES standards. More information can be found on the features page.

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Signal files can be created with Windows Notepad accessable from ULTRA's File/New or File/Open menu item. See the ULTRA User's Guide here for signal file formats. You can double check the ULTRA drawdown figures by selecting, "Dump Daily Account Values to Results File." in the Timing/Historical Analysis (Composite Strategy) screen. This is one of our most frequently asked questions. We've manually checked the numbers dozens of times and they are always correct.

To read these files, Adobe Acrobat must be properly installed on your computer. It can be downloaded for free from the Adobe site . Even if you do not load PDF on your computer, many of the PDF files found on this site are stored in alternative formats, such as text or HTML.

In addition to FAQTool, our AnswerTool software can read .faqt files directly. However since the .faqt files are standard XML files, you can easily convert them to other formats using XSLT or similar tools.

These notes are particular to laptops; the issue of file recover or transfer is otherwise covered in a number of FAQ questions in section 2.0, so read the adjacent responses. First, determine whether your drive is SCSI, or ATA (or IDE, same thing). A SCSI laptop hard drive has 50 pins, or possibly 54 pins (four for power); an IDE laptop hard drive has 40 or more likely 44 pins. IF the drive is IDE, you can't connect it as a SCSI drive and vice versa. Apple does not support external IDE drives.

It means that the file under consideration extends beyond the partition it resides on. That means either severe data lost or that you use wrong Recognized partition to recover the file. Please explore all such partitions. A Red cross on the icon means that file has been deleted and will have to be recovered to be accessed by the system. That is it. Files without the red cross are not marked as deleted.

The resources on Teaching Ideas are in a variety of formats. Some of these are in PDF format. To read PDF files, you need some software called Abobe Acrobat Reader. It is free and can be obtained from many computer magazine coverdisks, or downloaded from the Internet at http://www.adobe.com/acrobat.

No, your data is encrypted and only you know the encryption key, so there is no way that we can decrypt or access your data.

Registered users of MarkMyScriptures and MMSWeb can read any downloaded MMSWeb file. You can also read any DOC file in .prc format. MMSWeb files are indexed; other documents you download from the internet will not be. A good site for free DOC files is www.memoware.com, which offers several categories of books for download. If you download a DOC file and it does not show up in your "Other Docs" list, it is not in the proper format for MarkMyScriptures.

Download files are provided in several different formats: pipe-delimited ( | ) and fixed-width ASCII text (.txt), comma-separated value (.csv) text, spreadsheets (.xls), and compressed files (.zip). Files with the .xls and .zip extensions require applications that can read these files, such as Microsoft Excel for .xls and WinZip for .zip. For downloading text files, see the next FAQ.

The European Broadcast Union defined a binary format for subtitle exchange which has the extension .STL. You use this kind of files to communicate with subtitle labs and broadcast stations. TitleListConverter can import and Subtitler can export EBU files. There is a text file format .STL which was largely introduced with DVD Studio Pro 2 from Apple. You find the specification in the DVD Studio Pro user manual.

Unix files have permissions based on separating users into three classes: owner, group, and other. Each user class has three permission flags: read, write, and execute. These permissions are shown in verbose file listings like this: % ls -l /usr/local/bin/emacs -rwxr-x--x 3 jones wheel 5979548 Mar 22 2003 /usr/local/bin/emacs Here, the file's owner, jones, has full read, write, and execute access, indicated by the rwx in columns 2--4.