The contributors of the EMBOSS programs do attempt to provide an adequate description of the programs. This documentation for your current release is included as HTML pages in the EMBOSS distribution and may be available at your site. The latest documentation for the next release is provided by the developers at http://emboss.sourceforge.net/apps/
The release documentation is also available however through the program tfm as normal text.
If you have problems understanding the function or usage of an EMBOSS program, then you should contact the EMBOSS mailing list (emboss@emboss.open-bio.org).
The unusual name of this program comes from the common computing science expression: RTFM. This acronym, as you probably already know, stands for Read The Fine* Manual; so this is The Fine* Manual.
* Insert the expletive of your choice here!
The text is paged to the screen using the UNIX program 'more'. The program 'more' is a very standard way for text files to be displayed in UNIX. You might, however, prefer the text to be displayed using other programs, for example 'less' (which has more functionality than 'more' and is used by many people). The UNIX environment variable 'PAGER' can be set to hold the name of your preferred program. If you have PAGER set, then tfm will use this specified program instead of using the default 'more' program. (If you want tfm to use a specified program that is different to the normal 'PAGER' program, then 'PAGER' can be overriden by setting the environment variable 'EMBOSS_PAGER' to hold the name of the program that should only be used to display text in tfm).
'PAGER' can be set in UNIX by a command like:
setenv PAGER less
To get help on 'more' when using it to display text, press the '?' key.
To get help on 'less' when using it to display text, press the 'h' key.
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The table of command line arguments can be a bit difficult to read. This is the result of changing HTML Web pages to text.
You will see a page of documentation on the wossname program. To see further pages, you should press the SPACE bar on your keyboard. To stop seeing the documentation before you get to the end of the text, you can press the key q to quit.