From chemistry-request@ccl.net Fri Jun 12 10:56:37 1992 From: klemm@msc.edu (Stefan Klemm) Subject: XMol 1.3 follow-up (For Real?) To: chemistry@ccl.net Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 6:26:52 CDT Status: RO Hi again, Sorry about the empty message earlier. Don't know what happened there . . . . Anyway: Thanks to all of you that ftp'ed XMol 1.3, and also for the comments you sent. There are a number of problems that people have been having, and we would like to address some of these. 1) Some mail indicates that some installations may not be reading the X resource file. If you execute 'xmol' and you get a 500x500 pixel window with a teal and gray background, then all is well. If you get a much smaller window, with a blue background, then the xmol executable is NOT finding the X resource database, and it will not run properly (and it's ugly to boot!). Please try the install again. If it goes correctly, the installation should result in either (1) a file called /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XMol with world-readable permissions or (2) a file called XMol in the place that you chose in the script, readable by XMol users, who must have their XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environment variable set properly (as output by the INSTALL script). 2) Many of you are getting error messages of the form: Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfActivate: ManagerGadgetSelect() ' If you are really patient and don't interrupt, you will get MANY of these and the program window will pop-up. Things will work in general but the keyboard text entry will be of reduced functionality, like, no backspace and things like that. The cause of this is some missing entries in a file called /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB, or,if you are running a pre-release 4 X11, the file may be missing altogether. One option is to install OSF/Motif on your system. :-) If that is too much work, and if you have already installed XMol, you just need one file. Do: % ftp ftp.msc.edu enter "anonymous" for user prompt enter your email address for password prompt ftp> cd pub/xmol ftp> binary ftp> get xmol.tar ftp> quit % tar xvf xmol.tar XKeysymDB Note the instructions below require superuser privelege on most systems. Add, or have someone add, the contents of the XKeysymDB extracted from the tar file to the one installed on your system in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB. If you don't have a file named XKeysymDB in /usr/lib/X11, then install the file XKeysymDB extracted from the tar file into /usr/lib/X11. It must have the name XKeysymDB and be world readable. 3) If you had an SGI Iris-4D and got a copy of INSTALL that just quit after the first question, please get a new copy of xmol.tar and try again, it should now work on everybody's SGI Iris-4D. From mckelvey@Kodak.COM Fri Jun 12 22:04:25 1992 Date: Wed, 10 Jun 92 10:13:39 -0400 From: mckelvey@Kodak.COM To: osc@Kodak.COM, jkl@Kodak.COM Status: RO there were several postings in the recent past concerniing PSIBB. Has anyone gotten it running on an IBM RS/6000 ? Is the issue just a matter of using Calcomp libraries for the RS/6000 with the previously available codes ? If so, are they in the public domain for the RS/6000, or must they be purchaesd ? I will be glad to summarise and repost. Many thanks, John McKelvey Res. Labs Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, NY E-mail:McKelvey@Kodak.com Phone:7i6-477-3335 From chemistry-request@ccl.net Fri Jun 12 00:10:10 1992 From: Raul Valdes-Perez Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 20:08:38 EDT To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: RAIN & PEMCD programs? Status: RO Can anyone inform me whether the programs RAIN ("Reaction And Intermediates Network") and PEMCD ("Program for Determining the Exact Minima of Chemical Distance") - both written at the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Munich - are available electronically? Dr. Raul Valdes-Perez (valdes@cs.cmu.edu) School of Computer Science and Center for Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - USA From chemistry-request@ccl.net Fri Jun 12 03:12:38 1992 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 21:53:28 -0400 From: Scott Gregory Flicker Subject: Re: programming languages really are languages To: DSMITH@uoft02.utoledo.EDU, chemistry@ccl.net Status: RO Maybe some great netter deity should invent a very structured, logical, and compact human language. One with say a thousand or so words and have enough nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. to express foundamental ideas. Than have every body in the world take say three months off from life and learn this new supercompact language. Than everyone would have a common language to express their cultural diversity to every one else and american graduate students wouldn't have to try and substitute computer languages for human languages. -) Scott