Peter Rice (peterr at bioslave.uio.no) wrote:
: Sorry to post from a strange address, but most news sites I use still have
: no postings in this newsgroup. Funny though - I can see things like
: bionet.diagnostics. Just no bionet.software.srs. I hope someone is reading
: this. Hello Thure. Thure? Are you there Thure?
yes i hear ...though from norway ...we have the newsgroup but it takes ages
to get updated
: Guy Bottu (gbottu at ben.vub.ac.be) wrote:
: : 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).
: - deleting unwanted entries from a set before saving or linking
: (very useful for set refinement)
: - loading a set of entries in FOSN format for further processing
: - doing all this on a vt100 terminal
: so yes, on behalf of users far away at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge,
: UK, and elsewhere, I would very much like the vt100 interface back.
yes i agree ...therer is some development towards a vt100 interface
but it is still
too early to say anything of more substance ...we'll keep you informed
thure
