[EMBOSS] New and confusing problem with infoseq!

Peter Rice pmr at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Sep 23 12:52:40 UTC 2008


michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> Thanks for the reply!
> 
> I did indeed set my ACD root, and I seem to recall I did that because my
> EMBOSS applications were trying to access acd files in the unpack
> directory I installed from rather than the install directory I installed
> to.  This seemed to work.  
> 
> However, you are right, my EMBOSS_ACDROOT variable has been hijacked by
> a 3rd party app - grrr!!

I am curious ... which 3rd party application did this? Some interfaces 
set EMBOSS_ACDROOT or other variables but they should not affect running 
from the command line.

regards,

Peter



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