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Received: from bernina.ethz.ch (bernina-rz-fddi.ethz.ch [129.132.98.11]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA13312 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 04:16:19 -0700 Received: from kontiki (actually kontiki.ethz.ch) by bernina.ethz.ch with SMTP inbound; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:16:07 +0200 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:11:39 +0200 Received: from [129.132.49.126] by kontiki.ethz.ch id NAA10715; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 13:11:39 +0200 X-Sender: auerbach@kontiki.ethz.ch Message-Id: <v01510101ac3a9f44ac9a@[129.132.49.126]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: executor@nacm.com From: auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch (Daniel Auerbach) Subject: Re: E/D software Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >On Fri, 21 Jul 1995, Daniel Auerbach wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 13:42:22 +0200 >> From: Daniel Auerbach <auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch> >> To: executor@nacm.com >> Subject: E/D software >> >> I found that all the DNA Star programs run without any troubles under >> E/D. That's probably not worth much to anyone else since these programs >> are commercial (and awfully expensive on top !!) but for me this is more >> than wonderful... >> >that's great! > >i was thinking of trying to put those on my machine but i decided it >wasn't worth the trouble as i doubted they would work. Sorry about the delay in answering, but I've been working the whole weekend putting sequences together :( First, I apologize for my "all programs work fine" statement. They do work fine, but there still are some annoying bugs. If ARDI could look into those - I belive announcing that executor 2.0 runs DNA Star flawlessly could get you al lot of licences ! To my knowledge there's no DNA Star version for IBM (BTW, has anyone tried Current Contents with executor ? I think this might sell some executor licences, too). Anyway, my problems are mostly with Edit Sequence (Mapdraw and Align seem to work well). If you open a sequence file, sometimes it appears ok, that is, the text is not bold and you can edit the sequence alright. But sometimes, the whole sequence text is printed in bold, it doesn't use the whole window when you resize it (making it bigger) and above all, the cursor jumps something between one and two bases when you use the arrows to move through the sequence. Also, it partly deletes letters while moving, and if you use the mouse to position the cursor and then the keyboard to shift it, you'll have a "permanent" cursor where you first positioned it. This happens with about half of all the files you open. It looks to me as though executor overrides Edit Sequence to print the sequence on the screen. Maybe a font problem ? Sorry for all this blabla but since (I think) DNA Star is much better than DNA Strider, you should also take a look at this one (especially since there don't seem to be many bugs...). Some other things I noticed: If you move a file from one folder to another and both folders are set to have the files appear as listings, after moving, the new file always appears as an icon somewhere below the listings of the rest of the files (which are still as text, though). If you have your files as listings and then make the folder windows real big, executor shows two rows of files, even if there are only two files in the folder. However, you can never choose the one in the second row - you always end up with this one just simply disappearing! Finally, when I try E/D with -size 800x600 with my Mach32 VLB card, the refresh rate is abnormally low - if I try it with a dead cheap OAK VGA card with 512K, it works fine however. Am I missing some switch to put up the refresh rate or am I just being stupid or something ? I have a 486 DX2/66 with 16 megs RAM and (normally...) a ATI Mach32 card with 2 megs VRAM. Thanks for reading all that stuff and *please* think about testing DNA Star. I'd be really happy to see it running 100%... - Dan P.S. Ooops, sorry - yes, it runs not exactly fast, but its enough to work with it. Actually, I opened 15 sequence files (in Edit Sequence) and still it didn't slow down. Computing restriction maps in Map Draw takes a while, though. Try it, it's really cool (much better than Strider) ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Daniel Auerbach, Institute for Cell Biology * phone: ++41 1 633 33 93, FAX: ++41 1 633 10 69 * HPM F 46, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland * auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------