Charles Plessy wrote: > Oh, I completely overlooked the fact that the emboss programs can take > their user replies from stdin. Maybe then the most straightforward to > inform users from this mistake would be to change the error message to > something like : "Error: could not open file '...............', in which > the name of the file would be truncated to the end of the line. The user > would quickly understand if the file name is someting like AGTCCAGGTA...
Or perhaps they would not quickly understand ... because it took me a few runs before I realised that was the problem :-) I think we can keep track of stdin being opened in EMBOSS and refuse to prompt for input. regards, Peter _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
