Hello.
Can anyone tell me of a way to combine chopup and reformat commands in
GCG? What I'm looking for is perhaps a way to define a command that
would take as an argument a filename, run this through chopup, and
pass the output to reformat, resulting in a GCG format file.
We get our files in flat ASCII format with no carriage
return/linefeeds. Before they can be Reformatted, therefore, they
must be passed through Chopup. I understand how to pass the output
from chopup to reformat (include /OUT="|reformat /D" on the chopup
command line), but what I'm looking for is the equivelant of the
replacable parameter in DOS batch files (eg %1). Thus I could define
a command (say "chopgcg") such that one could enter the command:
$chopgcg sequence1.seq
and have it run something like:
chopup %1 /OUT="|reformat /OUT=%1"
where the %1 would be replaced by the filename indicated as an
argument on the chopgcg command line, resulting at the end in a file
called sequence1.seq in proper GCG format.
Is there a way to do this in OpenVMS? I'm using version 8.0 of GCG if
that's helpful.
Thanks for any suggestions.....
Mike Coyne
mjcoyne at warren.med.harvard.edu
