#Please insert up references in the next lines (line starts with keyword UP) UP arb.hlp UP glossary.hlp #Please insert subtopic references (line starts with keyword SUB) #SUB subtopic.hlp # Hypertext links in helptext can be added like this: LINK{ref.hlp|http://add|bla@domain} #************* Title of helpfile !! and start of real helpfile ******** 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