So, the stanford site isn't as clear as I'd like - seems to be more DOS type command driven, and obviously without the use of a window with flashy DNA/molecular type things going on...

Anyone use it and prefer it to the windows version? How does it compare for speed? I assume both are exactly the same? I just finished a 600 pointer, so thinking now would be good to uninstall it, and reinstall the console, if it were easier?

OK, I bit the bullet and got the console version... Was indeed very DOS like and I now have it going on a fresh WU. Question is, can I shut down the DOS type box which is setup on desktop and is now open and completed 0 out of 500000 steps....?

I'm scared if I close down that box it will totally shut off folding. :eek:

Ok..... I just figured out closing down the DOS window shuts down folding.... so I've gone from a small rose in the taskbar for me to now need to have a window open 24/7 on the desktop. Not a problem I guess.

It set up about 8 files/programs on my desktop so I had to shut it down while putting it all in one folder... Now got it running and it seems OK. Wonder what difference I might see using the client rather than the visual console?

I was running the console version so I could run it on both processors - however it annoyed me having it on the desktop, so set it up as a service.

It runs totally descreetly now. But now I don't know how to turn it off

Jase, install it as a service. It'll then run regardless, even if you haven't logged on.

Tom - if you want to stop it, just right-click the taskbar, choose Task Manager, goto the Processes tab and right-click the FAH_Corexx process and choose End Process.

Steve

Tom - if you want to stop it, just right-click the taskbar, choose Task Manager, goto the Processes tab and right-click the FAH_Corexx process and choose End Process.

Well, that's the brutal approach. Or, you can right click "my computer", choose manage, "Services & applications" -> Services, -> Right click FAH service and choose "Stop".

I don't know how well Stanford have implemented the service, but the method I've given you allows the process to save it's state and close down gracefully.

Hang on....? "install as a service"

May I have a guide for numpties on how to achieve this please?

Brutal, well I'm not sure - but it has the same effect!

I don't know why you'd want to close the service yourself, as it will adjust to any CPU demands other services put upon your PC. But I believe my method will have as 'graceful' a departure to the FAH service as yours will.

Steve

Hang on....? "install as a service"

May I have a guide for numpties on how to achieve this please?

Choose the 'advanced options' road, when you're asked about it in the DOS box Jase

It will then ask if you want it installed a service...

Steve

The DOS box now just kicks off a WU when I open it up, after shutting it. How do I get it to allow me to put DOS type commands in?

:confused:

Brutal' date=' well I'm not sure - but it has the same effect!

I don't know why you'd want to close the service yourself, as it will adjust to any CPU demands other services put upon your PC. But I believe my method will have as 'graceful' a departure to the FAH service as yours will.

Steve[/quote']

Not entirely true.

I qualified my earlier post to say that I wasn't sure whether the designers of the FAH client took advantage of the Microsoft Windows Services architecture, but to a well-written service, terminating it in the task manager rather than stopping it is analogous to pulling the power cord rather than choosing "Shutdown" when you want your computer to turn off.

The DOS box now just kicks off a WU when I open it up' date=' after shutting it. How do I get it to allow me to put DOS type commands in?

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use the -config flag at the end of the executable name.

Edit: ie either

FAH502-Console.exe -config

or

FAH504-Console.exe -config

depending on which version of the client you're using.

Handy hint: Do you know what the TAB key does while you're in a command window? Try typing "FA" and then press TAB for autocomplete. If there's more than one possible match, pressing TAB repeatedly will cycle through the options

Edit2: This all assumes that you've got a command window (not a "DOS box", for the terminally pernickety) open in the correct directory. If not, Start -> Run -> "cmd" (without the quotes) -> OK. Then use the CD command to get to the correct directory. For more information on the CD command, type "CD /?" (again without quotes)

OK... I have another Q. :P

How do you check the progress of the console version when its running as a service? Is there any way to log in to its progress using command prompt? Or would I have to halt the service, restart the service using the icon in C:\FOLDING ? see how it is, stop that service, then restart the other service in the services schedule?

Have a look at the FAHLog.txt file in the folding directory. Put a shortcut to it on the desktop if you like. Also the unitinfo.txt file shows a short summary of work on the current unit.

Have a look at the FAHLog.txt file in the folding directory. Put a shortcut to it on the desktop if you like. Also the unitinfo.txt file shows a short summary of work on the current unit.

The FAHlog is only getting data from the non servive way of running it, but the "unitinfo" would appear to be spot on - says its 45% through - woulod be about right given I only kicked it off at about 12.30 last night. Thanks for your help then and now.

Or you could get Electron Microscope which essentially reads the unitinfo.txt file and produces a graphical display from it - including pictures of the proteins currently being processed.

Have to echo TKW's comment higher up about shutting down the service properly. If you don't, you risk losing work, as the last thing the service does when it shuts down is update the text files with current progress so it knows where to start from next time you start it.

Another bad thing to do is to have both versions, or the service and the DOS window running at the same time, as they will share the same text files and one will overwrite the results from the other. Just have ONE instance at any one time.

I'll just read the unitinfo file, thanks Nick Nice to know there's another way mof looking at it though.