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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 21:35:41 CDT

Dear Tyler,
  Apparently our local MacOS X installation (or our login scripts)
sets the TMPDIR environment variable which is why we hadn't seen this
problem previously. I just tried it out again, without setting that
variable, and I encountered the exact problem you describe below.
When the environment variable is set, I'm able to run Stride on
various molecules. I'm going to make a revision to the vmd startup
script to avoid the TMPDIR problem on MacOS X.

Does this sequence of commands work on your system:
  mol delete all
  mol pdbload 1tit
  mol modstyle 0 top Cartoon

Let us know how it turns out.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:17:57PM -0400, Tyler Heibeck wrote:
> I've tried some basic functionality and most things seem to work. I
> did get an error message that the vmdinit.tcl script could not be
> found because the TMPDIR environment variable had not been set in the
> vmd start-up script. Once I defined this in the start-up script all
> was well. The other problem is that vmd can not call STRIDE. I
> checked the start-up script and the STRIDE_BIN variable seems to be
> defined properly. Any other external binaries (surf and tachyon)
> work fine. Anybody have any ideas?
>
> In case it will help here is some of my system information:
> IMac SE 400 MHz. OS 10.0.4 (latest version). I'm using that latest
> stable build of FreeX86 and XDarwin.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tyler Heibeck
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