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From: Vasiliy Triandafilidi (vasiliy.triandafilidi_at_phystech.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 09 2015 - 16:41:13 CDT

Thank you John, it appears that I didn’t understand the question correctly.
Bharat, please have a look at this page i wrote a short tutorial how to write an alias for VMD on Mac systems. It basically makes an alias for the command that John wrote.

Cheers,
Vasiliy
> On Apr 9, 2015, at 7:58 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> On MacOS, VMD is found inside of the "VMD xxxx.app" application bundle,
> and you can launch it by running the contained VMD startup script therein
> much like you would on a typical Unix machine. This is described in some
> of the VMD tutorials as I recall:
>
> cd VMD\ 1.9.2.app/Contents/vmd/
> ./vmd_MACOSXX86 -dispdev text
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:18:46AM -0700, Vasiliy Triandafilidi wrote:
>> have you tried using -e command? vmd -dispdev text -e file.tcl ?
>>
>>> On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Bharat Sharma <bharatsolbridge_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> Can someone please tell me how I can run VMD text mode on Mac OS X 10.9.5?
>>> I am able to do it on windows with following command but I am not able to find vmd on mac.
>>>
>>> vmd -dispdev text -eofexit < file.tcl
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Bharat
>>
>
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