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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 16:36:38 CDT

Hi Luis,
  I believe you're correct that VMD 1.8.[12] didn't let AutoIMD work with SGI.
As I remember this was due to problems with psfgen or something like that.
This has since been fixed. AutoIMD still isn't supported on Windows yet,
but I know that Jordi is working on trying it out for running local jobs.
At present I can't compile on IRIX as our build machine is being reinstalled,
but I hope to have a VMD 1.8.3 test version that you can try out on IRIX
sometime soon. I would expect AutoIMD to work fine on Linux, Solaris, and
the other non-SGI Unix platforms for previous versions. Now that the
problem with autoimd is fixed for IRIX, new versions of VMD will let
you use AutoIMD there when they are released.

  John

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:50:02AM -0500, Luis Rosales wrote:
>
> Hi!!
>
> I am starting to play with IMD, and I just ran the IMD tutorial with the
> poly ala helix!
> However I didnīt found the AutoIMD plugin on my VMD distribution (SGI)...
> I have checked other ports of VMD (Windows and linux) and I only found the
> Extensions > AutoIMD menu on the linux port.
> But, all three distributions have an autoIMD directory under the
> "plugins\noarch\tcl" path...
>
> Anyway, I tried to put the plugin on the extensions menu adding to my .vmdrc
> the following lines:
>
> lappend auto_path {/usr/people/ludwig/bin/VMD-1.82/vmd/plugins/noarch/tcl}
> if { [catch "package require autoimd" msg] } {
> puts "VMD autoimd package could not be loaded:\n$msg"
> } elseif { [catch {menu tk register "autoimd" autoimd} msg] } {
> puts "VMD autoimd could not be started:\n$msg"
> }
>
> Now I have the plugin on the Extensions menu, but the console say that
> autoimd is not supported for this plataform...
> By the way, The AutoIMD user guide says that windows is not supported, but
> ANY computer running Unix with vmd 1.81 or latter will work with the
> plugin...
>
> - Does that means that both, Win and SGI are not supported for the plugin?
> (just trying to be sure... :( )
> - Under what plattaforms the AutoIMD plugin is expected to work
>
> Thanks and kind regards,
>
>
> Ludwig
>
>
> 

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