database access

[ableasby at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk]

In response to Charles:
www.ca.embnet.org is designed to provide sequences to everybody this
way. Like most EMBnet (European Molecular Biology network) sites it
has an SRS server. The Canadian node is the only one I know that
provides GenBank this way, most of us provide EMBL instead.
You can play interactively with the Canadian server directly by using:
  http://www.ca.embnet.org/srs6.1/
It should then become clear what the DB entry is doing.

As an addendum the original query was solved (typically) behind the scenes
and was just an emboss.default file in the wrong place. I'm tempted
to put this file in the emboss directory itself under a filename like:
emboss.default.example . Historically the file is where it is to
avoid new installations overwriting your own copy but the above would serve
the same purpose.

Alan

(http://srs.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/srs6/)