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From: Stefan Boresch (stefan_at_mdy.univie.ac.at)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2019 - 02:39:54 CST

Ashar,

thank you for the pointer/hint, which I do/did remember. I have in
fact used your script myself before eventually switching to 1.9.4 (on
Linux). Alas, I am less sure how easy it will be for some of the students.

Best regards,

Stefan (Boresch)

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 05:03:59PM +0800, Ashar Malik wrote:
> Hi, Assuming PDB download is your only issue you can see here for a small
> script I wrote to address this problem a while back.
>
> https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/28754.html
>
> Please read the complete thread (1 message before this:
> https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/28752.html) for
> directions on how to use it (hopefully this still works). Hope this helps,
> while you figure out a way to get 1.9.4.
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:29 PM Stefan Boresch <stefan_at_mdy.univie.ac.at>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear VMD Team,
> >
> > aside from my research, I use VMD quite a bit for teaching. For various
> > reasons we are switching courses from a dedicated computer lab (where the
> > whatever Linux version needed is pre-installed) to have students use their
> > own laptops. Thus, I'll have to ask students to download/install VMD on
> > their machines. However, here (Austria) the majority of students'
> > computers runs Windows, and the most recent precompiled version is 1.9.3.
> >
> > Now, 1.9.3 does everything and more I need for my courses (and 32bit only
> > isn't an issue either), but 1.9.3 cannot download directly from the PDB.
> > (And I understand that the reasons for this are out of control of the VMD
> > developers!)
> >
> > I apologize for the request, but is there a chance to get a newer
> > version of vmd pre-compiled?
> >
> > I would offer to try to compile VMD myself, but I have no experience
> > whatsoever building any nontrivial software on Windows; also, I am not even
> > sure where to find source for 1.9.4alpha versions.
> >
> > Help, pointers, suggestions welcome -- thanks in advance!
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >
>
> --
> Best,
> /A