Hi Peter,

On 5/10/2012, at 8:43 PM, Peter Cock wrote:



On Thursday, October 4, 2012, Shane Sturrock wrote:

There are two tabs between the 2010 and /data

Sigh. I've been using emacs to edit these files on our server, and
it doesn't show non-printing characters like tabs in a visible way
(at least, not with the default settings - any tips?). Note I'm not

I'm a 'vi' man myself.  It doesn't show tabs in a visible way either but I can see where they are when I move along the line.

using xemacs, just the terminal based one. And typing a raw
tab involves a tedious control sequence... there probably is an
easier way, but I don't edit these loc files very often.

Just hit 'Tab' in vi.

(Note that user defined BLAST databases are coming soon
to the BLAST+ wrappers, delayed by a hardware problem
on our local system meaning I haven't finished testing it)
 

Like an idiot I just copied one of those lines and changed it to 
match my local database setup and then spent literally hours 
trying to figure out why blast from the command line worked 
fine, but I couldn't get it to work with Galaxy.

Sorry about that - but by reporting this and getting it fixed you've
hopefully saved anyone else suffering this way.

Thanks again, took me a couple of hours to figure it out so it would be good to save someone else that time.

I'm at a meeting all day so I probably won't be able to update
this till next week.

Glad you're on it anyway.

Shane

Shane Sturrock
shane@biomatters.com