[EMBOSS] Rebase installation nightmare

[Guy Bottu]

Yes, this is an old pain. It is difficult to find good EMBOSS 
documentation. Should improbe when John Ison puts the new manual on-line...

> 4.   So I check whether there is a directory 
> /usr/local/share/EMBOSS/data/REBASE. There is, with a file entitled 
> "dummyfile".

Is the directory REBASE writable for the UNIX user who runs the program 
rebaseextract ?

	Guy Bottu