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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Too many levels of symbolic links Post 40631 by Bab00shka on Friday 19th of September 2003 12:15:29 PM
Old 09-19-2003
I can see now what has happened, the equivalent of

ln -s filename filename

I'd assumed that the link was

ln -s filename /different/directory/filename

Been working too many hours I think! Thanks Perderabo :-)

Cheers
Helen
 

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ASN2XML(1)						     NCBI Tools User's Manual							ASN2XML(1)

NAME
asn2xml - translate biological data from ASN.1 to XML SYNOPSIS
asn2xml [-] [-b F] [-e] [-i filename] [-l filename] [-o filename] [-s] DESCRIPTION
asn2xml converts an NCBI Seq-entry or Bioseq-set from ASN.1 format to an isomorphic XML representation. It differs from asn2asn -x in that it converts packed sequence data back into human-readable ASCII text. OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. - Print usage message -b F Input asnfile in text mode -e Input is a Seq-entry -i filename Read ASN.1 from filename (default is stdin) -l filename Log errors to filename (default is stderr) -o filename Write XML to filename (default is stdout) -s Input is a Seq-submit AUTHOR
The National Center for Biotechnology Information. SEE ALSO
asn2all(1), asn2asn(1), asn2ff(1), asn2fsa(1), asn2gb(1), asndhuff(1), gene2xml(1), /usr/share/doc/ncbi-tools-bin/README.asn2xml, /usr/share/doc/libncbi6/ncbixml.txt.gz NCBI
2005-05-16 ASN2XML(1)
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