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Can anybody tell me how to install samtools in a WinXP system?
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And how to unzip the installation files? I don't know UNIX. Where can I find useful information? -
help! Any tiny hint!Comment
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Ok. Couple points of etiquette here.
First...please don't rebump your thread every few minutes.
Second, the first hit in a search for "samtools on winxp site:seqanswers.com" is this thread. http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5379
Lastly, your questions are much more likely to get answered if you take some initiative and show that you're at least trying to help yourself. If you have encountered a basic problem like unzipping files on unix and can't help yourself to a solution via Google/StackOverflow, etc, then you're going to be in trouble.
That's pretty much as polite as I can be given your basic etiquette violations.
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Thanks! Criticism is much better than nothing. I got some hints so far and trying to help myself.Comment
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