Arg

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 7 October 1991
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NAME

arg - genbank archive utility  

SYNOPSIS

arg c|r[vo12...9] afile size file1 [file2...]
arg x|t[vo12...9] afile [gen1 [gen2...]]  

DESCRIPTION

The arg utility is used to manipulate the genebank archives that are used by tierra(1). It is used to assemble or dissasemble tierra code, list the genomes contained in a file, and also to convert between the old and new file formats.

The arg commands are:

c - create afile and add genomes in file1...filen
r - replace in afile (or add to end) genomes in file1...filen
x - extract entire contents or specified genomes from afile
t - list entire contents or specified genomes in afile

The optional modifiers are:
v - verbose output
o - old. will cause c & r to expect an old-style genome file rather than
assembly code, and x to produce old format rather than disassembled listing, has no effect on t.
1,2...9 - instruction set (defaults to INST == 1)

Where filen and afile are any legal filenames, genn is a 3 character genome label, and size is a decimal integer. (Note that tierra(1) expects archives to have names consisting of 4 digits, and an extension of .gen, .tmp, or .mem.  

FILES

GenebankPath/nnnn.gen permanantly saved genomes
GenebankPath/nnnn.tmp genomes from periodic saves
GenebankPath/nnnn.mem genomes swapped to disk  

SEE ALSO

An Approach to the Synthesis of Life
tierra(1), ov(1X), beagle(1DOS), genio(3), arg(5)  

BUGS

Genome extraction and internal search functions could be faster (and will in the next release)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
SEE ALSO
BUGS

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