5 This is the first release of the fasta34t10 distribution for the
6 Macintosh. In addition to the traditional "classic" applications that have
7 been available in the past for Macintosh FASTA distributions, this release
8 also includes "Carbon" versions of the FASTA programs. Carbon
9 applications are designed to work under both MacOSX and under MacOS8.6 and
12 This is the first "Carbon" implementation of the FASTA programs. In this
13 first implementation, the Mac-like interface for selecting sequence files
14 has been disabled, as the older file interface I used is not available
15 under Carbon. This should be implemented in the future.
17 Today, the main advantage of the Carbon implementation is its ability to
18 run under MacOSX without needing the classic environment. However, the
19 unix version of the FASTA programs compiles and runs fine under MacOSX,
22 make -f Makefile.os_x all
24 However, the Unix version of the FASTA programs expects sequence files and
25 libraries to have lines that ends with a linefeed characther ('\n', \012),
26 which is different from the traditional Mac return ('\r', \015) end-of-line
27 character. If you work with Mac-like text files under MacOSX, try the "carbon"
28 FASTA programs. If you work with Unix-like text files, use the Unix