EMBOSS 1.7.0

[ableasby at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk]

NB: The default operation of    -osf gcg     has changed with 1.7.0
    The same applies to the staden, plain, text & experiment formats.

The problem with all the above formats is that if you retrieved
multiple sequences they would all go into the same file. This
would, of course, be meaningless. The strange thing is that that's
precisely what we've decided to do in this release.

Old behaviour for (e.g.) -osf gcg: The output filename would be
  ignored and EMBOSS would generate filenames automatically. This
  was confusing a lot of people.... especially as it wasn't really
  documented. To get it to have the same behaviour as all the other
  formats the switch   -noossingle   had to be used.

New behaviour: It now recognises the output filename. This means that
  it is up to you to make sure you only retrieve single sequences.
  If you want to retrieve multiple sequences in GCG format you
  must send them to single files by putting   -ossingle   on
  the command line.

At least the behaviour is now consistent and, if you're feeling perverse,
you could use this feature for catenating sequences in plain
format instead of pasteseq!

ENTRET: This application is a bit like SEQRET but retrieves whole
 database entries in their original format. It works only with
 flatfiles (e.g. indexed by dbiflat) and is currently only
 implemented for EMBL & GenBank format databases.

A long-standing problem of -slower and -supper only converting the
first sequence in multi-sequence retrieval has been fixed.

Alan