Recently, there has been a discussion whether the vt100 interface for
SRS should not be abandonned. An important issue in this debate is that,
at the present, there are a number of things that you cannot do with the
WWW interface :
- save all the entries of a set in separate files with one
command (with vt100 you use CopySet)
- obtain a sequence range defined relative to a feature
(e.g. the 10 bases upstream and downstream of
an intron-exon boundary).
That is why at the BEN site we have a computer with SRS 4 with WWW
interface under OSF/1 and another computer with SRS 3 with vt100
interface under SunOS. This is an unpleasant intermediary situation,
the more that the indexation of SRS 3 often crashes.
Therefore, it would be a good thing if the vt100 interface for
SRS 4 were ready, or if the WWW interface could be rendered as
flexible as the vt100 interface.
Has somebody a comment about that ?
Guy Bottu
