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From: John Robert Kitchin (jkitchin_at_udel.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 09:22:10 CST

you need to set the VMDHTMLVIEWER environment variable to point at whatever
browser you use.

See
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd_help.html

j

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu]On Behalf
> Of Fernandez-Alonso, F (Felix)
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:42 AM
> To: 'vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu'; 'vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu'
> Subject: vmd-l: accessing VMD help
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am a new user of VMD, so please bear with me. I have just installed a
> precompiled version VMD 1.8.1 on my Linux box (Red Hat 9). The
> program seems
> to be running okay except that it appears to have problems accessing the
> help menu. The error message in the console bar is as follows:
>
> vmd_open_url failed: couldn't execute "netscape"; no such file or
> directory.
>
> Obviously, vmd thinks that I am using netscape as my web browser.
> How could
> I change this setting?
>
> thanks,
>
> Felix
>