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Distributor Project              Project Partner: Boehringer Ingelheim, Biberach
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:Author:
        Frank Sonnenburg
:Organization:
        BioSolveIT GmbH
        An der Ziegelei 79
        53757 Sankt Augustin
        Germany
        tel +49 2241 2525-0
        fax +49 2241 2525-525
        www.biosolveit.de
:Date:
        2004-02-20




Project Description
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Components, Modules and Files
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Installation
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Requirements
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- Python 2.3 or higher.
- Batch queuing system: OpenPBS. SunGridEngine or others on demand.

Installation step by step
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- Unpack BSI_distributor-.tgz
- Move directory distributor and BSI_distributor.pyc to a location included in
  $PYTHONPATH e.g. /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages. Or insert location of
  distributor directory into $PYTHONPATH.
- Copy (and edit) BSI_distributor.cfg to one or more of
  - /etc/BSI_distributor.cfg
  - $HOME/.BSI_distributor.cfg
  - /BSI_distributor.cfg
- Move BSI_distributor.py to a location included in $PATH (or insert location of
  BSI_distributor.py into $PATH). Make sure that BSI_distributor.py is
  executable (chmod a+x BSI_distributor.py).


Usage
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- From console:
  $ BSI_distributor.py [ ...] [ ...]
  or (if python is linked to python2.2 or lower)
  $ python2.3 /BSI_distributor.pyc [ ...] [ ...]
- From python:
  >>> import distributor
  >>> orderID = distributor.main(, ..., =, ...)