Emily,
I'm not familiar with Vector NTI, but some software handles common
"corruption" of abif files better than others. In this case the
problem sounds related to the file being treated as text and the
consequences of different line-end characters among the platforms.
Make sure you are transferring in Binary mode with your FTP client
(you shouldn't need any special encoding). If you are pulling files
down to windows, MacBinary II might be a problem unless you can
decode them on the windows machine. for e-mailing from the macs, try
stuffit deluxe or ZipIt (http://www.maczipit.com/) to create ZIP
files that can be handled on windows using winzip or aladdin expander
(among others). you can also create self extracting zip files with
ZipIt.
Hope this helps.
-James
>Greetings!
>
>I have a DNA sequencing client who is having problems using Vector NTI
>(Windows 98) for editing and alignment of ABI electropherogram files. She
>gets an "illegal character" error message every time she tries to open up
>data files that she has ftp'd from our server (a Unix). She gets the same
>error if we email the data files from our Macs to her PC. But, if we copy
>the data files onto a diskette (PC formatted) she has no problem. Even
>though other clients using Vector NTI on PCs do not seem to have this
>problem, I am beginning to wonder if the encoding we use (Mac Binary II) is
>a problem. Since I am not at all familiar with Vector NTI, I'd appreciate
>hearing any suggestions anyone may have for this one.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Emily Machelski
>Emily Jackson-Machelski
>
>Manager, DNA Facility
>Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Laboratory
>Washington University School of Medicine
>660 S. Euclid Ave, Box 8103
>St. Louis, MO 63110
>
>ejm@pcg.wustl.edu
>phone: (314) 362-0282
>fax: (314) 362-4698
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