Eric Engelhard wrote:
> uncompress -c dbEST.FASTA.dailydump.Z | formatdb -i stdin -p F -o T -n
> dbEST
>
> Formatdb results in a compressed format ready for homology searching,
> but I can also leave it off and create huge files (useful only in
> showing the value of stdout/stdin redirects in this system).
Hate to reply to my own post, but the above is not true. I had forgotten
that
uncompress -c largefile.Z > largefile
will in fact create a file no larger than the 2 GB limit (C library
compile thingy). Wishful thinking, I suppose.
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Eric Engelhard
