dbiflat indexes a flat file database of one or more files and builds EMBL CD-ROM format index files.

Here is a sample session with dbiflat, using the data in the test/embl directory of the distribution (normally indexed as tembl):

% dbiflat
      EMBL : EMBL
     SWISS : Swiss-Prot, SpTrEMBL, TrEMBLnew
        GB : Genbank, DDBJ
Entry format [SWISS]: EMBL
Database name: tembl
Database directory [.]: /nfs/disk42/pmr/emboss/osf/emboss/test/embl/
Wildcard database filename [*.dat]:
Release number [0.0]: 1.0
Index date [00/00/00]: 04/02/00

Mandatory qualifiers:

-idformat (menu)

Entry format.

-directory (string)

Database directory.

-filenames (string)

Wildcard database filename.

[-dbname] (string)

Database name.

-release (string)

Release number.

-date (string)

Index date.

Advanced qualifiers:

-fields (menu)

Index fields.

-exclude (string)

Wildcard filename(s) to exclude.

-indexdirectory (string)

Index directory.

-maxindex (integer)

Maximum index length.

-sortoptions (string)

Sort options, typically -T . to use current directory for work files, or -k 1,1 to force GNU sort to use the first field.

-[no]systemsort (boolean)

Use system sort utility.

-[no]cleanup (boolean)

Clean up temporary files.