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08-06-2010

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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

I'm 40+ years older than you.

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Originally Posted by edfair

My IT started 49 years ago

OMG! Thank you for making a 48-year-old geezer feel young again! ;-))

Seriously, i can only repeat what Jim and Ed already said: knowing IT is not "knowing where to click to do something", but understanding (down to the lowest level) what is going on when you click somewhere. The problem with Windows is that this distinction is constantly obfuscated and Windows "Admins" tend to confuse the two. "Knowing the dialogue where one enters an IP address and a subnet mask" is not "knowledge about networking", etc., etc..

For the learning part: i have only ~30 years of experience in the IT business and so i am - compared to Jim - still a beginner in the art. Still, i work with none of the tools, systems, networks, ..., which were there when i started the job. Go figure.

Life means learning, IT means learning permanently and even more and faster so than in any other job. You'll love it.

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EXONERATE(1)						      General Commands Manual						      EXONERATE(1)

NAME

       exonerate - suite for investigating DNA and RNA sequence similarities

SYNOPSIS

       exonerate-client [--help]
       exonerate-server [--help]
       fasta2esd [--help]
       fastaannotatecdna [--help]
       fastachecksum [--help]
       fastaclean [--help]
       fastaclip [--help]
       fastacomposition [--help]
       fastadiff [--help]
       fastaexplode [--help]
       fastafetch [--help]
       fastahardmask [--help]
       fastaindex [--help]
       fastalength [--help]
       fastanrdb [--help]
       fastaoverlap [--help]
       fastareformat [--help]
       fastaremove [--help]
       fastarevcomp [--help]
       fastasoftmask [--help]
       fastasort [--help]
       fastasplit [--help]
       fastasubseq [--help]
       fastatranslate [--help]
       fastavalidcds [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       These  programs	are  not  described by the upstream author, however, some information is available via the --help and -h arguments for all
       these programs. Whoever is using any of these programs in routine, is requested to provide a seed of a respective man page to the  upstream
       author.

OPTIONS

       -h,    --help Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

       http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/
       The   author   of   this   package   provides   a   beginner   (   http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/beginner.html   )  and  and  avanced
       http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/advanced.html ) tutorial on his web pages.

AUTHOR

       exonerate was written by Guy Slater <guy@ebi.ac.uk>.

       This manual page was written by Steffen Moeller for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								    30 Jun 2007 						      EXONERATE(1)