EMBOSS

[Dr J.C. Ison]

On behalf of the emboss nightshift - thanks for the
nice comments !

J.

: )

Brian Osborne wrote:

> EMBOSSers,
>
> I'm pleased to report that EMBOSS 2.5.1 compiles and installs cleanly on
> cygwin ("CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.17(0.67/3/2) 2002-11-27 18:54 i686 unknown") from
> www.cygwin.org. I've only used a few of the EMBOSS programs but I'd be very
> surprised if any didn't work, cygwin handles standard languages with no
> difficulty.
>
> For those of you who haven't run across cygwin it's a Unix emulator running
> on Windows machines. The package contains most common Unix utilities as well
> as a C compiler, support for Perl and Python, apache, many standard
> libraries, ssh, cvs, emacs, tcsh/zsh, and so on. Connecting to mysql and
> Oracle is also possible, I do it myself, but setting it up can be a little
> trickier than on Unix machines. Installing cygwin creates a set of
> directories in the Windows filesystem that look just like Unix directories
> by name but behave like regular Windows folders. Installation is very easy.
> It's free and its performance is very good, it should be recommended to
> those who want to use EMBOSS on Windows machines.
>
> Thanks once again for your excellent work,
>
> Brian O.
>
> Brian Osborne
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