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From: Dr. Daniel James White PhD (dan_at_chalkie.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2005 - 07:42:45 CST

Hi John,

I have stuff added to my .cshrc file for insightII

I can start csh and tcsh
with no errors output to the terminal....

so how do I check if something really is bombing but the shell isnt
telling me?

Dan

On 11 Jan 2005, at 15:34, vmd-l digest wrote:

> Dan,
> Since the two tests that Axel asked you to perform were successfull,
> I'm starting to believe that the actual source of problems is your
> .cshrc
> and other associated startup files. I've seen _many_ MacOS X
> installations
> of VMD unable to start because a user has a .cshrc file that contains
> the
> line:
> source .alias
>
> Seems harmless, except that it's not a fully qualified path, and so if
> you
> run VMD from any directory other than one that contains .alias, the
> user's
> startup scripts bomb, preventing VMD from being spawned with a terminal
> window for the text console. This same type of thing can also occur on
> Linux, and any of the commercial Unix versions out there. I'd double
> check
> your login files and make sure there's not something bombing there.
>
> John
Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Bioimaging Coordinator
Nanoscience Centre and
Department of Biological and Environmental science
Division of Molecular Recognition
Ambiotica C242
PO Box 35
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä FIN 40014
Finland
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