"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote: > > and the arguments following one to start a front (-g=on) and > preceding one to start another, will be passed to the respective > front. So, > > ./loci -g=on --geometry=100x100 -n=on --no-comments Or maybe running... ./loci will, indirectly and by default, start the Gnome and NLI (in an xterm) fronts, which are executables too. And if the user wants to do something else, he/she can start any of the fronts directly. IOW, to start just the Web interface the user will have to... cd front/web ./loci-web [OPTIONS...] How does that sound? Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+