Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!bu.edu!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Software for automated subseqence extraction Message-ID: <1991May4.021542.18217@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 4 May 91 02:15:42 GMT References: <17428@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 26 overt@antony (Christian Overton) writes: > 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 IRX isn't restricted to kermit; you can save to a disk file instead, but selecting "save to file" instead of "download with kermit" is one of the few serious mis-features in the IRX user interface (IMHO). You have to do something like hit the space bar to cycle around the choice; yes, the directions to do this are right there on the screen, but 1) who reads directions, 2) it's counter-intuitive, and 3) the directions are confusing. It took us a few times to figure out how to do it. Anyway, once you've got the entry saved as a disk file, it's easy to ftp it back to your machine. I do this on a regular basis. If I was maintaining IRX, I'd make Save To Disk the default. Really neato would be "Save to remote host via ftp", but if building a whole ftp client into a GenBank retrieval program isn't feeping creatureism, I don't know what is. /roy -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"