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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 22:48:14 CDT

Dear Evan,
  The MacOS X version of VMD is not yet able to dynamically load plugins.
This is one of the things we have yet to finish in the new Mac versions of
VMD. It should be a relatively simple matter, in that Macs have dynamic
linking capabilities, they just aren't done the same way they are on
other Unix systems, so we'll have to write special code or use a
POSIX compatibility library to emulate the libdl functionality we use
on other Unix systems. For now, if solvate is critical for you, I'd
say use one of the other supported platforms to run your solvate job,
and hopefully we'll get dynamic linking up and running on the Mac
before too long.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:02:59PM -0400, Evan Thompson wrote:
> I'm using both the OSX native VMD1.8 bundle and VMD1.7.1 under Xdarwin
> and I'm trying to solvate a protein to use in namd. I figured out how to
> get solvate1.1.1 to run, but the package can't find psfgen, no matter
> where I move it around to. Where does psfgen need to be for it to be
> found by either 1.7.1 or 1.8, or do I need to modify a configuration
> file somewhere. I'm working with the binary version of psfgen. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
> Evan
>
>
> Evan Thompson
> Johns Hopkins University
> Dept of Biology
> Baltimore, MD 21218 

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