Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Software for automated subseqence extraction Message-ID: Date: 1 May 91 20:46:38 GMT References: <17428@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 17 > One problem with using GenBank IRX in its current form is that > retieval of information can only be done via Kermit. This means, in > particular, that data cannot be retrieved over the Internet and that > instead, one has to dial up the GenBank server directly (too expensive > from East Coast) or use SprintNet (never tried this before). It would > be nice if disk space was set aside for temporary files (like files > that can exist for no more than an hour) that could be created and > ftp'd by anonymous users. Chris, We'll consider this proposal at our next GOS meeting. Dave P.S. - Your mail header overt@antony needs fixing. I can't reply to your mail directly.