question on Ven command

Hello users

I am new to mothur and wish to plot a ven diagram. I am trying to learn ven command by using abrecovery.dist data.
I gave following command
Windows version

mothur v.1.6.0
Last updated: 10/6/2009

by
Patrick D. Schloss

Department of Microbiology & Immunology
University of Michigan
pschloss@umich.edu
http://www.mothur.org


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mothur > read.dist(phylip=abrecovery.dist, cutoff=0.10)
********************###########
Reading matrix: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||


mothur > venn()
You must read a list, or a list and a group, or a shared before you can use the venn command.

mothur >
Could you please tell me which file mothur is asking from tutorial data? I want to try ven diagram first from tutorial data and then will use my data set.
Please let me know.
Thanks in advance

you need to cluster the sequences…

mothur > cluster()

and then parse the listfile…

mothur > read.otu(list=abrecovery.fn.list, group=abrecover.groups)

and then run the venn command…

mothur > venn()