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Configuration

EMBOSS can be readily configured to match your requirements. In a standard installation of EMBOSS the configuration directives are looked for in the following locations and in the following search order:

1.
A file emboss.default in the share/EMBOSS subdirectory of your EMBOSS installation.[*][*]
2.
A file .embossrc in the directory specified by the EMBOSSRC environment variable.
3.
A file .embossrc in the users home directory.
4.
A file .embossrc in the current directory.
emboss.default and .embossrc are plain text files that can readily be edited to suit.[*] Redefinitions of configuration parameters will override those previously defined. In the descriptions that follow only .embossrc will be mentioned but all directives can be placed in emboss.default for site wide configuration.

Several aspects of EMBOSS can be defined. These are:

Databases are by far the most complex of these.

EMBOSS will ignore blank lines in the emboss.default and .embossrc files. It will also ignore any lines beginning with # or ! allowing comments to illuminate the declarations in the file.



 
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