Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!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: <1991May5.020525.16864@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 5 May 91 02:05:25 GMT References: <17428@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1991May4.021542.18217@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 17 overt@antony (Christian Overton) writes: > One problem with using GenBank IRX in its current form is that > [...] data cannot be retrieved over the Internet To which I replied: > IRX isn't restricted to kermit; you can save to a disk file instead, It would appear that I spoke without fully comprehending the situation. Apparantly, there are different types of accounts; the account I use allows full access to the Unix shell, so I can save disk files and manipulate them later. Apparantly there are other accounts in which you can not do this. Please excuse the confusion I may have caused. -- 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!"