The .ini file

An optional file <project>.ini consists of a set of keywords and arguments defining project-specific parameters for SIGSPEC. If this file is not present in the same folder as the time series input file(s), SIGSPEC uses a set of default parameters. A complete list of keywords is given in ``Keywords Reference'', p..

Multiple use of the same keyword or the specification of contradictory keywords causes the software to take into account only the last declaration. There are only three exceptions:

1. SIGSPEC accepts multiple weights columns specified by col:weights (p.),
2. multiple subset identifier columns may be specified by col:ssid (p.),
3. the simulator may be used to synthesize multiperiodic signal plus various types of noise upon the given sampling, where the keywords sim:signal, sim:poly, sim:exp, sim:zeromean, sim:serial, sim:temporal, and sim:rndsteps may be used multiply (see ``The simulator mode'', p.).

Caution: SIGSPEC expects a carriage-return character at the end of the file <project>.ini, otherwise the program may hang!

Lines in the .ini file starting with a # character are ignored by SIGSPEC. This provides the possibility to write comments into the file. Furthermore, additional characters beyond what is expected in a line (keyword plus required number of parameters) is ignored. Thus it is allowed to add comments also at the end of the lines containing relevant information for SIGSPEC.