davison@MENUDO.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (09/13/90)
ANNOUNCING THE UH GENE-SERVER RECONFIGURATION
The UH Gene-Server is now moved to its new machine. Due to OS
differences, some problems remain and some responses from the server
will be a little strange (well, OK, *very* strange). The change-over
occurred on Thursday, September 13, and with the execptions noted
below should be transparent to most users. However, all users should
read this entire note.
The address:
gene-server@bchs.uh.edu (Internet)
gene-server%bchs.uh.edu@CUNYBM (BITNET/EARN/NETNORTH...)
Send a message with the "Subject: " line "HELP" to get started.
The old addresses will continue to work for an indeterminate length of
time.
Much software has been added and will be added in the coming weeks.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTES:
o THE SERVER CAN ONLY HANDLE ** ONE ** REQUEST PER MAIL MESSAGE.
That is *one* help file, OR *one* GenBank (tm, DHHS) locus, or
*one* PIR entry, ...etc. This is a programming limitation. I'm
not a programmer. This will be fixed if possible, eventually.
o ACCESSION NUMBER ACCESS DOES NOT WORK. I do not understand why
the new shells (sh, csh, ksh, sh5 -- at least they all agree!) no
longer execute a particular script properly. I don't know if
accession number access can be restored. If it is, it will
announced in all the usual places. I'm definitely not a
programmer.
o JUST ABOUT *EVERY* ACCESS WILL COME BACK WITH AN ERROR MESSAGE
*PLUS* the requested sequence file, software, index, or other
information. I'm not a shell programmer (see above); my apologies
in advance for the inconvenience and confusion this will cause.
o ANONYMOUS FTP acess has changed. The host is now meudo.uh.edu,
Internet address 129.7.1.6. All software will be available by
Saturday. The FTP archives will contain the same software and
files as the Gene-server, except GenBank (tm, DHHS) which is
available as usual from genbank.bio.net, IP address below.
o ON SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTMBER 15, THE GENE-SERVER will be
automagically upgraded to GenBank Release 64. If you prefer
Release 63, contact davison@uh.edu.
o THE SERVER WILL NOT BE UPDATED DAILY; it WILL be updated promptly
for each major release. Weekly (daily?) updates are available via
anonymous FTP from genbank.bio.net, Internet address 134.172.1.60.
o SERVER MANGEMENT RESPONSE TIME WILL INCREASE GREATLY. You may not
get a reply for several weeks. Again, my apologies in advance for
the inconvenience.
o THE ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION WILL BE WRONG. There's only one of me
and I have a daytime job, so I will be editing the multitude of
help and index files to reflect the new situation. However, that
will take quite a while.
This new machine, disk space, and conversion is courtesy of the Vice
President for Information Technologies at the University of Houston,
Dr. Ira Weiss, and the University Computing Center. Additional support
is provided by the Institute for Molecular Biology, and the Department
of Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences. I would especially like to
thank Mr. Alan Pfeiffer-Traum for system service assistance during the
conversion.
Please report problems to gene-server-management@bchs.uh.edu,
(or gene-server-managment@bchs.uh.edu), although a response to your
message may be (considerably) delayed.
dan davison
assistant professor of biological and biophysical sciences
bchs-5500
university of houston
4800 calhoun
houston, tx 77204-5500
tel: 713-749-7599 Internet: davison@uh.edu
fax: 713-749-3239 BITNET: DAVISON@UHOU
msgs: 713-749-2801 CIS: 74065,41
The UH Gene-server is not funded by any agency or affiliated in any
way with the contractors and subcontractors on the NIH GenBank
contract.