
                           EMBOSS: embossversion
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                             Program embossversion
                                       
Function

   Writes the current EMBOSS version number
   
Description

   This small utility writes out the current version of the EMBOSS
   package.
   
   It is expected that this may have a use in scripts which automatically
   write descriptions of the state of the EMBOSS package that is set up
   locally.
   
   It will also be a useful way for people to ascertain what version is
   being run if they are giving user-support to people in another site.
   
Usage

   Here is a sample session with embossversion:

% embossversion
Writes the current EMBOSS version number
1.13.0

Command line arguments

   Mandatory qualifiers: (none)
   Optional qualifiers:
   -outfile            outfile    Output file

   Advanced qualifiers: (none)
   General qualifiers:
  -help                bool       report command line options. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   

   Mandatory qualifiers  Allowed values Default
   (none)
   Optional qualifiers   Allowed values Default
   -outfile Output file  Output file    stdout
   Advanced qualifiers   Allowed values Default
   (none)
   
Input file format

   None.
   
Output file format

   This writes just the version number followed by a newline character to
   end the line.
   
   The output is written to the screen by default, but can be writetn to
   a named file by using the '-outfile' option.
   
   The version number is in three parts, separated by '.'s.
   The first number is the major version number - this only changes when
   substantial changes have been made to the look-and-feel of EMBOSS.
   The second number is the minor version number - this is incremented
   whenever a version is released.
   The third number is usually '0' but if a minor bug fix has been
   released that does not warrant a minor version number, this will be
   incremented.
   
   An example of the version number is:
   1.13.0
   
Data files

   None.
   
Notes

   None.
   
References

   None.
   
Warnings

   None.
   
Diagnostic Error Messages

   None.
   
Exit status

   It always exits with status 0.
   
Known bugs

   None.
   
See also

   Program name Description
   embossdata Finds or fetches the data files read in by the EMBOSS
   programs
   
Author(s)

   This application was written by Gary Williams
   (gwilliam@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk)
   
History

   Written (23 May 2001) - Gary Williams.
   
Target users

   This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from
   naive users to embedded scripts.
   
Comments
