[EMBOSS] Problem writing sequence files

[Kim Rutherford]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:30:26 +0100, Peter Rice wrote:

> Kim Rutherford wrote:
>> Hi.  I'm trying to write a sequence to a named file.  I tried this:
>> 
>> AjPFile seqout_file = ajFileNewOut(seqout_name);
>> AjPSeqout named_seqout = ajSeqoutNewF(seqout_file);
>> 
>> I get a segmentation fault and this backtrace:


>> I'd appreciate if someone could let me know what I'm doing wrong or
>> point me to some example code that does something similar.

> It is a bug.

> ajSeqoutNewF creates a sequence output object with an open file - but 
> stores it as a "Knownfile" attribute. It was used in the USA processing, 
> but ignored if you call ajSeqWrite directly.

> An easy fix - it will work in the next release  ... and I see you already 
> found it works nicely - and in the true EMBOSS style - when you do all 
> the hard work in the ACD file.

Thanks for that.  I've changed my strategy, but it still may be useful
for me later.  I'll do a "cvs update".

Kim.