12 files changed, 211 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/src/check_ncbi_error.c b/src/check_ncbi_error.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3caa7a9
--- a/dev/null
+++ b/src/check_ncbi_error.c
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#include "check_ncbi_error.h"
+
+void
+check_ncbi_error (ValNodePtr error_returns,
+                  const char* filename,
+                  unsigned int linenum)
+{
+  error_at_line (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, filename, linenum,
+                 "An error has been reported by the NCBI Toolkit API: %s",
+                 BlastErrorToString (error_returns));
+
+  return;
+}