Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!daemon From: MJB1@VMS-SUPP.CAM.AC.UK Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.seqnet Subject: SEQNET Bulletin Message-ID: <5008@ig.ig.com> Date: 5 Feb 88 14:17:45 GMT Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com Lines: 97 From: MJB1@VMS-SUPP.CAM.AC.UK Bulletin_# 71 From: HARPER@EARN.FINUH 4 Feb 1988 UPLOADING files Date: 4 Feb 1988 From: HARPER@EARN.FINUH To: seqnet@UK.AC.CAM.PHX Subject: UPLOADING files Via: UK.AC.RL.EARN; Thu, 04 Feb 88 10:46:12 GMT Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 1238; Thu, 04 Feb 88 10:46:12 GM Received: from FINUH.BITNET (HARPER) by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 1237; Thu, 04 Feb 88 10:46:10 X-Original-To: seqnet@phx.cam.ac.uk, HARPER %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TITLE: HOT UPLOAD FINNISH STYLE %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% I was reading in BIONET that someone was having problems with PROCOMM. It sounded that the excess characters where coming from a noisy phoneline. PROCOMM has the ability to UPLOAD texts which you have prepared off line... which is perhaps the best to enter sequence data. The PG UP key will give you a list of possibilities... for texts like this one I am writing now choice #7 (ascii/upload) should put the prepared text in with few or no errors. If you want accuracy (CRC) error checking then the choice would be KERMIT... but now for something completely different!!!!! Here is something to make your lives easy... a simple method for uploading onto bulletin boards, or E-mail scratchpads. The method involves using SIDEKICK to PASTE things straight into your work area. Here are the instructions. 1 Open the SIDEKICK Notepad. 2 Write your text 3 Mark the beginning of the text with CTRL K B 4 Mark the end of the text with CTRL K K 5 Set the BLOCK to be PASTED with CTRL K E 6 When asked "Press key to paste with" select function key F5 7 When asked BLOCK or LINE mode choose B for BLOCK 8 Hit ESC to get out of SIDEKICK 9 Get to the place where you want to add a message, and wait for the the system to tell you to enter text. 10 Hit the function key F5 and the text will appear in your scratch pad. Simple and very effective... highly recommended. You need SIDKICK v 1.5 onwards, older versions don't have the PASTE facility. -=ROB=- ============== (Message number 6) Accepted: 11:52:00 05 Feb 88 Submitted: 13:04:00 04 Feb 88 IPMessageId: -unspecified- From: HARPER@EARN.FINUH To: seqnet@UK.AC.CAM.PHX Subject: We are "backwards" in Finland Via: UK.AC.RL.EARN; Thu, 04 Feb 88 11:06:45 GMT Received: from UKACRL by UK.AC.RL.IB (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2591; Thu, 04 Feb 88 11:06:44 GM Received: from FINUH.BITNET (HARPER) by UKACRL.BITNET (Mailer X1.25) with BSMTP id 2526; Thu, 04 Feb 88 11:06:37 X-Original-To: seqnet@phx.cam.ac.uk, HARPER On our VAX we have a mailing facility called Gmail, which can be used for sending mail through different GATEWAYS. You have the ability to do a CHECK ADDRESS to make sure that the ID@NODE is correct. So when I run a CHKADD on SEQNET@UK.AC.CAM.PHX I get the following: gMail> chkadd seqnet@uk.ac.cam.phx %gMAIL-E-NOIMPPROT, no implicit protocol defined for address 'SEQNET@UK.AC.CAM.PHX' %gMAIL-E-NULLADDR, no valid addresses found. A friend from CERN said that you may need to REVERSE the order of the NODE when you are sending messages from EARN to the UK. So if I REVERSE the order to SEQNET@PHX.CAM.AC.UK and run a CHKADD then Gmail give the following reply. gMail> chkadd seqnet@phx.cam.ac.uk %gMAIL-I-ADDR, gMail address: 'UKACRLGATE%"SEQNET@PHX.CAM.AC.UK"' This is a valid address from here in Finland and messages sent to this address get delivered. I hope this is of help to other EUROPEANS on EARN. JANET most likely is an entirely different kettle of fish. Rob "in reverse" Harper