Interactive commands

[Gary Williams, Tel 01223 494522]

It works for me under 5.8:

% uname -a
SunOS californium 5.8 Generic_108528-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

% dbiflat
Index a flat file database
      EMBL : EMBL
     SWISS : Swiss-Prot, SpTrEMBL, TrEMBLnew
        GB : Genbank, DDBJ
Entry format [SWISS]: 


Gary




David.Bauer at SCHERING.DE wrote:
> 
> I'm running the 2.4.1 on SunOS 5.7 and it works perfectly.
> Probably this is a 5.8 specific issue. Hope someone with the same OS version can
> give you a hint.
> I have no idea... :--|
> 
> Good luck!
> David
> 
> 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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