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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 21:44:39 CDT

Hi,
  If your login shell on OSX is set to bash, then you'd add these commands
to your .bashrc or .profile file:
VMDMSMSUSEFILE=1
export VMDMSMSUSEFILE

If you're using csh, then you'd add these to .cshrc:
setenv VMDMSMSUSEFILE 1

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:37:38PM -0600, Ralph Jimenez wrote:
> Dear VMDers:
>
> I downloaded MSMS from TSRI's web site, but it doesn't work, probably
> because my environment variables aren't set. I get the "Could not connect
> to MSMS server..." error message.
>
> I need help with two things, which are alluded to in several places in the
> VMD docs and mailing list, but I need more explicit instructions:
>
> 1. Could someone please tell me which commands need to be added to which
> file so that VMD finds msms?
>
> 2. The 1.8.6 release notes say "it is necessary to set the VMDMSMSUSEFILE
> environment variable to work around incompatible endianness..." So which
> command do I need to add to which file to do this part?
>
> Thanks for your time.
> Ralph
>
>
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> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Ralph Jimenez, Ph.D.
> JILA/NIST and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
> 440 UCB
> University of Colorado, Boulder
> Boulder, CO 80309-0440
>
> Tel: (303) 492-8439
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>
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