[Bioperl-l] Placement of LargePrimarySeq

Hilmar Lapp hlapp@gmx.net
Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:37:13 +0200


Ewan Birney wrote:
> 
> > BTW I'm sure you know that some people appear to be using bioperl under
> > Windows. So, temp directory determination etc should be compatible.
> >
> 
> great. Do you happen to know how to do that? Is there a perl call for
> "give me a temp directory"
> 

Hmm. To be honest, I don't, but I'm not a Windows advocate either. So
WinPerl guys out there, please enlighten us.

I do know that there is a File::Spec, but basically this only aids in
path construction (which I think tolerates '/' instead of '\' anyway).
Quasi-standards are C:\temp or C:\windows\temp. Environment could be
TEMPDIR or so. Maybe it is advisable to be able to set this as a static
parameter.

	Hilmar

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