dbiflat question

[Peter Rice]

Marc Logghe wrote:
> I added this entry to emboss.default
> DB est [
>    type: N
>    format: genbank
>    method: emblcd
>    directory: /data/emboss/est
> ]

You need:

directory: /data/genbank
indexdirectory: /data/emboss/est

EMBOSS needs to find the index files and the data files.

Just specifying "directory" works if both files are there (it becomes 
the defualt for indexdirectory), so your confusion is quite understandable.

Hope this helps,

Peter Rice