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- To: executor@nacm.com
- From: auerbach@cell.biol.ethz.ch (Daniel Auerbach)
- Subject: Re: E/D software
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- >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) !
-
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- * 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
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