[Bioperl-l] Placement of LargePrimarySeq

[Ewan Birney]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

> Ewan Birney wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW I'm sure you know that some people appear to be using bioperl under
> > > Windows. So, temp directory determination etc should be compatible.
> > >
> > 
> > great. Do you happen to know how to do that? Is there a perl call for
> > "give me a temp directory"
> > 
> 
> Hmm. To be honest, I don't, but I'm not a Windows advocate either. So
> WinPerl guys out there, please enlighten us.
> 
> I do know that there is a File::Spec, but basically this only aids in
> path construction (which I think tolerates '/' instead of '\' anyway).
> Quasi-standards are C:\temp or C:\windows\temp. Environment could be
> TEMPDIR or so. Maybe it is advisable to be able to set this as a static
> parameter.

I have already done this... perhaps this is good enough for now, but I
know in the future that we will get burnt here...

> 
> 	Hilmar
> 
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Hilmar Lapp                                email: hlapp@gmx.net
> NFI Vienna, IFD/Bioinformatics             phone: +43 1 86634 631
> A-1235 Vienna                                fax: +43 1 86634 727
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Bioperl-l mailing list
> Bioperl-l@bioperl.org
> http://bioperl.org/mailman/listinfo/bioperl-l
> 

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Ewan Birney. Mobile: +44 (0)7970 151230, Work: +44 1223 494420
<birney@ebi.ac.uk>. 
-----------------------------------------------------------------