1-January-2002


This is the first release of the fasta34t10 distribution for the 
Macintosh.  In addition to the traditional "classic" applications that have 
been available in the past for Macintosh FASTA distributions, this release 
also includes "Carbon" versions of the FASTA programs.  Carbon 
applications are designed to work under both MacOSX and under MacOS8.6 and 
later.

This is the first "Carbon" implementation of the FASTA programs.  In this 
first implementation, the Mac-like interface for selecting sequence files 
has been disabled, as the older file interface I used is not available 
under Carbon.  This should be implemented in the future.

Today, the main advantage of the Carbon implementation is its ability to 
run under MacOSX without needing the classic environment.  However, the 
unix version of the FASTA programs compiles and runs fine under MacOSX, 
simply type:

	make -f Makefile.os_x all

However, the Unix version of the FASTA programs expects sequence files and 
libraries to have lines that ends with a linefeed characther ('\n', \012), 
which is different from the traditional Mac return ('\r', \015) end-of-line 
character.  If you work with Mac-like text files under MacOSX, try the "carbon"
FASTA programs.  If you work with Unix-like text files, use the Unix 
version.

Bill Pearson