Thought this would be good to pass on. -----Forwarded Message----- Subject: [blast-announce] [blast-announce #034] Reorganization of BLAST Bi naries FTP site. Date: 15 Jul 2003 15:07:31 -0400 On or about August 15th 2003 NCBI will make changes to the directory structure for the FTP site of BLAST binaries. This will include the Standalone BLAST Binaries, blastcl3 client and the WWW BLAST Server programs. No changes will be made to the database files as they exist now. There will be a subdirectory under the /blast/executables/ FTP directory called /release/. The release/ subdir will contain all releases and will be indexed by version number. Example: /blast/executables/release/2.2.6/ blast-2.2.6-ia32-linux.tar.gz netblast-2.2.6-ia32-win32.tar.gz If major bugs are discovered between releases, fixes will be made available in a /snapshot/ directory. The /snapshot/ directory will contain fixes indexed by date the binary was updated. For example: /blast/executables/snapshot/2003-05-09/ wwwblast-20030509-sparc-solaris.tar.gz These binaries should only be used if the functionality you need is not in the current release. Announcements concerning changes to release will be made through the BLAST-Announce e-mail service (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/blastannounce.html). Files will also be renamed to better reflect the program, version, and operating system. For example: blast-2.2.6-powerpc-macos9.hqx is the executable for Standalone BLAST version 2.2.6, for Mac OS9. Similarly netblast-2.2.4-powerpc-macos9.hqx and wwwblast-20030509-powerpc-macosx.tar.gz for the blastcl3 client and WWW BLAST server respectively. These changes apply only to the binaries for NCBI tools and programs. If you have any questions please contact blast-help@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615