[Bioperl-l] Unable to retrieve genebank file with GI number

[Rambabu Gudavalli]

Dear Sirs,

	i am trying to connect the genbank  remotely  with GI number   using 
the bioperl
in this link, they are telling we can connect genbank remotely using GI 
numbers
http://doc.bioperl.org/releases/bioperl-1.4/Bio/DB/GenBank.html
i am retrieving the data using the Accession numbers but not with GI 
numbers.
with GI number,  is not connecting and it is giving warning like this

-------------------- WARNING ---------------------
MSG: acc (gb|24585102) does not exist
---------------------------------------------------
Use of uninitialized value in length at /Library/Perl/5.8.1/Bio/Perl.pm 
line 271.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Bio/Perl.pm line 283.
You have a non object [] passed to write_sequence. It maybe that you 
want to use new_sequence to make this string into a sequence object? at 
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Bio/Perl.pm line 283
         Bio::Perl::write_sequence('>x.fasta','fasta','undef') called at 
ConnectGenbak1.pl line 14

any help,
thanks,
Ram