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TITLE           Start a console

OCCURRENCE      ARB_NT/Tools/Start XTERM

DESCRIPTION     Starts a console window from ARB.

                The shell in the console uses the same environment as the running arb session.
                From this environment you may call perl-scripts
                     - delivered with ARB (e.g. in $ARBHOME/PERL_SCRIPTS) or
                     - your own scripts.

                The main reason for the execution environment is the ability to easily access the
                database currently loaded into ARB.

NOTES           The console window is started in the same way
                as done to call external tools (like RAxML).

                See ARB_XTERM in LINK{arb_envar.hlp} to customize the
                way arb starts consoles.

EXAMPLES        of existing scripts:

                * listMarkedSpecies.pl (save names of currently marked species to a textfile)
                * markSpecies.pl (mark species according to content of a textfile)
                * arb_read_tree (import tree from newick treefile)

WARNINGS        None

BUGS            No bugs known
