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Starting XRNA

Once you have completed the installation of XRNA, you are then ready to run the program. Because XRNA is a JAR file, it may not be launched directly. The program will not start by double clicking the file as you can with most Windows applications. Instead, you must start it using the program "java" which interprets the package, and launches XRNA.

Windows 2000/XP
  1. Open the "Run..." prompt in the Windows "Start" menu.

  2. Type the following, substituting your path to your XRNA package if it does not reside in c:\xrna
    3. java -jar c:\xrna\xrna.jar

    Or, for example, the directory you saved xrna.jar was on the D drive, in the folder "programs", you would type the following 

    java -jar d:\programs\xrna.jar

    Once XRNA has started it will print it's version number and launch the main graphics window. You may then begin your XRNA session.

    You may alternately specify an intitial input file by providing that when you launch the program. For example 

    java -jar c:\xrna\xrna.jar c:\xrna\5s.thermus.ss

    This will start XRNA and immediately open the file named "5s.thermus.ss"

Linux
  1. Open a Unix command prompt.

  2. Type the following, substituting your path to your XRNA package if it does not reside in in your current directory
    3. java -jar xrna.jar

    Or, for example, the directory you saved xrna.jar was in your home directory in the folder xrna, you would type the following 

    java -jar xrna/xrna.jar

    Once XRNA has started it will print it's version number and launch the main graphics window. You may then begin your XRNA session.

    You may alternately specify an intitial input file by providing that when you launch the program. For example 

    java -jar xrna.jar xrna/5s.thermus.ss

    This will start XRNA and immediately open the file named "5s.thermus.ss"

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