Peter C. wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just updated my Mac to EMBOSS 6.1.0, and have found an > issue with seqret conversion of IntelliGenetics files. After some > digging, I think this problem relates to having DOS new lines in > a file on Unix (in my case, Mac OS X).
we have an application "noreturn" to fix things like this. If you send me your file I will ty to take a look at whether we shoudl be catching the funny newline characters. > P.S. Should I have reported this possible bug via sourceforge? The [email protected] list is the best way to get our attention > P.P.S. Back in 2006, I reported a similar issue with a data > corruption reading stockholm/pfam with DOS newlines > (Sourceforge Bug #1588956, long since fixed). It seems to > me that EMBOSS would benefit from explicit testing of all > the file formats using DOS/Windows newlines when run on > Unix, and vice versa. Does that sound feasible, or just > hopelessly ambitious? We can try ... how well does biopytjhon handle these? (i.e. do we need such examples for perl, python etc or is this an EMBOSS-specific issue?) regards, Peter _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
