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From: reisner@ee.su.oz.au (Alex Reisner)
Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank
Subject: Re: A question for FTP users
Message-ID: <9101192238.AA06164@ee.su.oz.au>
Date: 20 Jan 91 14:38:32 GMT
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>We have had a request to keep both the current GenBank release AND the
>previous GenBank release in the FTP directory as standard policy.
>                                Dave Kristofferson
>                                GenBank Manager
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For our part we download new releases as soon as they become available via
the Internet.  They are converted to PIR format for use by the packages
we've purchased and the in house software we run.  The previous release is
then compressed and moved to an 8 mm Exabyte cartridge.
Therefore, we don't require holding the previous release on GOS
discs.
        One inexpensive option that may be open to GOS is to place on-line
the previous version which will be on CD-ROM starting this quarter via
a symbolic link.  That should be a fairly cheap solution.  It wouldn't be
in compressed format but at least it would be available.

Alex Reisner
(Australian Genomic Information Service)