Hi Don,

I enclose below a copy of a note about a problem someone had - I have
let Dan Davison know as well. I though it would be better to submit the
collections directly by ftp to your incoming directory. They are as
follows:

PEDRAW14 - version 1.4 of pedigree-drawing program (DOS)

PEDHELP - pop-up help for above

EASISTAT - general statistics and graph-drawing program (DOS)

FASTMAP - produce quick approximation to multipoint lod score from two-points

Thanks for your help,

Dave Curtis

Academic Department of Psychiatry,    Janet:       d.curtis@UK.AC.IC.SM
St. Mary's Hospital,                  Elsewhere:   d.curtis@SM.IC.AC.UK
Praed Street, London W2.              EARN/Bitnet: dcurtis%CRC@UKACRL
Tel 071-725 1993                      Usenet: ...!mcsun!ukc!mrccrc!D.Curtis


> Hi Dave,
> 	We were interested to see your posting about fastmap and I have
> been trying to download a copy. Since we are connected to the Internet I
> chose a site (ftp.bio.indiana.edu) from which I could download it directly
> without having to use a mail-server.
> 	They have a file called fastmap.uue in /biology/ibmpc, and I down-
> loaded this but I have not been able to decode/unpack this. The Unix version
> of uudecode swallows it without complete, but the resulting .ZIP archive
> causes PKZIP to hang. Using teh EMBL version of UUDECODE, I got an error
> message - illegal prefix in line 1020. Looking at the .uue file with a 
> text editor, I found that it contains four email messages from you, all
> concatenated together. The first two are both fastmap.aa, but neither appears
> to be complete (ie, neither has a trailing 'end' line); they are followed
> by apparently ok copies of fastmap.ab and fastmap.ac.
> 	Since the iubio archive is primarily for those with Internet
> access, it would be much better if it contained the .ZIP file itself, which
> would save space, download time, and errors such as have apparently
> occurred. I am presently trying to get good copies of the uuencode files
> from the gene-server, and will let you know whether they are good.
> 	I thought you'd better know that iubio have a bad copy as, from 
> your email to them, you seem to be expecting them to send it on to the
> mirror sites, thereby propagating the bad copy even further. Also, they
> didn't appear to have a copy of EASIPLOT, or at least it wasn't in the 
> same area as fastmap and pedraw1.4
> 	I'm looking forward to trying fastmap as soona s I get a good
> copy. Thanks for making it available.
> 
> John Attwood.
> 
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