[EMBOSS] HELP! DOTMATCHER

[Peter Rice]

On 09/03/2011 23:31, Iain Drummond wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> For starters i would get rid of the square brackets ("[]") in your command;
> i don't think these are necessary.

That's the right answer. Qualifiers on the command line must start with 
'-' otherwise they are counted as 'parameters'. The square brackets are 
hiding the crucial dashes.

regards,

Peter Rice
EMBOSS Team

> On 3/9/11 6:10 PM, "Kevin Egan"<egorleg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I entered the information as follows
>>
>> dotmatcher -asequence cam3.txt -bsequence TCH3A.txt [-matrixfile EDNAFULL]
>> [-windowsize 10] [-threshold 70]
>>
>> but got a 'too many parameters' error message.