The program has been written on the assumption that most people will use it to quickly find the name of a program based on that program's description, so the output goes to the screen by default.
This program may find some use in automatically generating lists of EMBOSS programs and their groups for Web pages.
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wossname reads the brief descriptions and the program groups from the ACD files. (ACD files control the parameters that the programs expect - don't worry about them unless you are writing EMBOSS programs).
The format of ACD files is documented elsewhere.
If the -html, -prelink and -postlink qualifiers are specified, then the output will be wrapped in HTML tags, ready for inclusion in a Web page. Note that tags such as <HTML>, <BODY>, </BODY> and </HTML> are not output by this program as the list of programs is expected to form only part of the contents of a web page - the rest of the web page must be supplied by the user.
A program can belong to more than one group.
The name of this program comes from its use as a favorite word of the author Terry Pratchett. It is used especially by the characters of the parrot in Eric and the dog Gaspode in Moving Pictures and Men at Arms.