Overview of Pasteup application

Brief Descriptions

Pasteup is a GUI application for making record sections of seismic data with a variety of expressions.
In addition, Pasteup provides fundamental functions to analyse seismic data, such as picking and filtering.

Main features

Invoke pasteup

To invoke pasteup, type

$ pasteup

(in this document, $ reprensents a shell prompt).

Command line arguments and options

Pasteup has many command line options. The most worthwhile option to learn is "-h". It means "help", of course.

$ pasteup -h

or

$ pasteup --help

and you get a very long message. See them for details.

Here, some of convenient options are explained.

-l, --logo

Suppress opening logo image.

--view

Plot a record section of the specified SU/SEG-Y file. Several parameters including gain and display ranges are automatically set. See the below example.

      $ pasteup --view site01.su
      

Examples

Invoke pasteup with a data file "foo.su".

$ pasteup foo.su

Invoke pasteup with a parameter file "foo.rc"

$ pasteup -f foo.rc

Make a PostScript file "foo.ps" with use of a data file "foo.su". Automatic scaling and raning.

$ pasteup --ps --scale 20 --range 0 foo.su > foo.ps

Configuration files

Pasteup reads and saves several configuration files;

parameter file

This is the most important configuration file.
The parameter file contains all the parameters to plot, pick and analysis; e.g., plotting style, display range, filter parameters, amplitude configurations, analysis parameters and so on.

"$(HOME)/.pasteup/bindings"

This file contains the configurations of Fn-keys.

"$(HOME)/.pasteup/preferences"

This file contains several system configurations such as paths for external seismic applications.

"$(HOME)/.pasteup/theme"

This file contains colors and fonts of Pasteup windows. Just an eye candy.

Parameter file

Parameter file is divided into two type. One is an implicit "special" parameter file, "$(HOME)/.pasteup/parameters" which is automatically saved and loaded, when you invoke and quit Pasteup. The other is the "normal" parameter file that you can save and load at any time you like. The filename of the "normal" parameter file is arbitrary and you can make as many "normal" parameter files as you want.

Prevent reading configuration files.

All the parameters you specified in the previous pasteup session will be recovered in the next session automatically by the "special" parameter file. This is convenient in most cases. However, if you don't want to recover previous session, you can prevent reading parameter files by command line options.

don't read "parameter file", but read the other configuration files.

If you don't want to recover parameters of the previous session, specify the "--noparam" option to the pasteup,

$ pasteup --noparam

don't read all 4 configuration files.

If you don't want to recover all the 4 configuration files, specify the "--vanilla" option,

$ pasteup --vanilla