From: Benjamin Bouvier (benjamin.bouvier_at_ibcp.fr)
Date: Wed Feb 17 2010 - 10:50:33 CST

Jane,

Open Applications in finder, right-click VMD and 'show package contents'.
Browse to Contents/MacOS, right-click startup.command and 'get info'.
Under the 'open with' tab, select 'Terminal.app' rather than
'Smultron.app'...
Cheers,

Benjamin

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:35:53 +0100, Jane Bailey
<jbailey.xtal_at_googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am a new user of VMD, however I couldn't make it work in my office
> computer which is Mac osx 10.4.11
> The version I downloaded is MacOS X OpenGL (Intel x86)
> <http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/Download/download.cgi?UserID=&AccessCode=&ArchiveID=987>
> (Apple MacOS-X (10.4.7 or later) with hardware OpenGL (native bundle)).
> I simply compiled it and copied the program to the Application like for
> other Mac softwares. But when I double-click the program, it says in
> Smultron:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # startup.command
> # This is the script executed by VMDLauncher to actually start VMD.
>
> p=`dirname "$0"`
> "$p/../Resources/VMD.app/Contents/MacOS/VMD" $*
>
>
> Does anybody have idea what was wrong with my installing?
>
> Many thanks!
> Jane