- Capitalization In the text of this document, program names are often typed in upper case letters. This is to make the name stand out. However, when actually executing a program, use lower case letters for command line execution in a terminal. Linux is case sensitive.
- File Naming BSU programs expect file names with no more than 12 characters. If a file xxxx.seg is input to a program byyy, then the output data file will be byyyxxxx.seg. Naming scrolls right. So if data file byyyxxxx.seg is input to program bzzz, the output will be named bzzzbyyy.seg. This is predictable and a bit of a pain at times. It goes back to being able to write bash scripts and be able to predict the names of output for later stages in a sequence of processes. If you input a file with a long name, then you will get this message:
[ABORT] Input length violation [13]
- File Suffixes Seismic data in BSEGY format are *.seg files. Seismic data in SEGY format are *.sgy files. Files in SEG-2 format are *.DAT files. Bison files don't have a suffix (unless compressed as *.gz) and are 8 characters long, typically upper case alpha numeric. Some BSU programs will output GNUPLOT *.gp files.