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Re: lynx-dev problem with -post_data


From: Philip Webb
Subject: Re: lynx-dev problem with -post_data
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:48:34 -0500

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:31:41PM +0100, Vieri Di_paola wrote:
> I use lynx to retreive the result of a biological database query.
> It works for "Entrez" (a server for biological sequences). I do:
>  lynx -dump -cfg=~/.lynxrc
>  
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query\?db=n\&form=4\&term=dolphin+\[ALL\]\&dopt=f\&tool=EntrezLinkDoc
>  > EntrezResultFile
> I would like to do the same thing with another server called "Blast"
> But this time I need to post data contained in a file called p.in.
> Content of p.in:
>  PROGRAM blastn
>  DATALIB month
>  BEGIN
>  > gene1
>  aaagggcccttt
> O.K. Then I tried:
>  lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc
>  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/BLAST/nph-blast_report -post_data < p.in
> BUT I get the following error message:
>  ----ERROR IN BLAST REQUEST------Short error description...etc...
>  ...etc... Your original message was:
>  ----------------------------PROGRAM
>  blastnDATALIB
>  monthBEGIN>gene1aaagggcccttt-------
> Seems like the \n in p.in are not considered?
 
KW has already given some advice,
but i recall a similar problem from someone at U of London (UK)
-- possibly Imperial College -- , which will be available in the Archive
at  www.flora.org/lynx-dev/ : it was some time ago, maybe 1998.

Philip Webb

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