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Several environment variables are used by VMD
to determine the
location of certain files and directories. These variables include:
- VMDDIR :
The directory which contains the VMD data files (such as this help
file) and architecture-specific executables. By default, this is
/usr/local/lib/vmd.
- VMDTMPDIR :
The directory which VMD should use for temporary data files. By
default, this is /tmp.
- VMDBABELBIN :
The complete path and filename for the program babel, which is used
by VMD to convert molecular structure/coordinates files into PDB
files which VMD
can actually understand. If this is not set
explicitly, the VMD
startup script will attempt to find babel in
the current path. If Babel cannot be found or is not installed, VMD
\
will not be able to read molecular file formats other than PDB,
PSF, and binary DCD files.
- VMDHTMLVIEWER :
The name of the HTML viewer (Netscape, Mosaic, whatever you prefer)
that VMD
should use to display HTML documents (such as this help
file). By default, this is Mosaic (hey, we are at the University of
Illinois, NCSA is literally right upstairs ...).
Andrew Dalke
Tue May 14 16:49:45 CDT 1996