SIGPROC has been used by numerous pulsar astronomers since 2001. Some of its highlights have been:
Each program is driven by command-line switches and makes use of the Unix stdin/stdout and pipe feature so that a pipeline can be built by stringing programs together, e.g.
filterbank 0329+54.bcpm | dedisperse -d 26.833 | fold -n 256 > 0329.prf
will convert a raw datafile ("0329+54.bcpm" in this case) into filterbank format, dedisperse the data (at a dispersion measure equal to 26.833 in this case) and then fold it producing an ASCII profile with 256 phase bins.
On-line help can be found by typing the name of each program followed by "help". Detailed information and example usage can be found here.
Download the latest version of SIGPROC here and unpack the gzip-compressed tar file via the command:
gunzip -c sigproc-4.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
This will place the source code into a sigproc-4.3 directory. Go into this directory and run the configuration script:
cd sigproc-4.3
./configure
and specify the location of the directory for the executable files when prompted. Once the script has run, type "make" and hopefully the compilation will proceed seamlessly!