Interactive commands

[Claude Bonnard]

Don't know what to say: the compilation went perfectly OK (as far as error
messages...)

$ uname -sr
SunOS 5.8
% embossversion
2.4.1
%dbiflat
Error: Too short (dbname) - minimum length is 1 characters
%checktrans

it hangs untill a CTRL-C 8-(

>>>>> YES, obviously a config problem..but which ?

I think that I will need some clue..

Thanks a lot!


On Jul 24,  8:49am, simon andrews (BI) wrote:
> Subject: RE: Interactive commands
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cbonnard at isrec-sg1.unil.ch
> > Subject: Interactive commands
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Any idea of the place to search for this problem?
> >
> > % dbiflat tsw
> >
> > EMBOSS An error in dbiflat.c at line 194:
> > No files selected
> >
> > I cannot find a way to get into any interactivity with (at
> > least) this utility.
>
> Hmmm.  On my system:
>
> $ uname -sr
> Linux 2.4.9-21smp
>
> $ embossversion
> Writes the current EMBOSS version number
> 2.4.1
>
> $ dbiflat
> Index a flat file database
>       EMBL : EMBL
>      SWISS : Swiss-Prot, SpTrEMBL, TrEMBLnew
>         GB : Genbank, DDBJ
> Entry format [SWISS]:
>
> ..and it's all interactive from there on.  Are you using an old Emboss
version?  If not there might be a problem with your installation.
>
> Simon.
>-- End of excerpt from simon andrews (BI)



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