Help

   

Starts an HTML viewer (like Mosaic or Netscape) and displays on-line VMD help documents. The viewer is designated by the environment variable VMDHTMLVIEWER. Starting help multiple times will start multiple viewers. The default browser for versions 1.2b1 and higher is Netscape. Previous versions used Mosaic by default. The following documents can be accessed from this submenu:

• Quick Help - A listing of common procedures in VMD
• User's Guide - An online version of what you are presently reading
• VMD Home Page - The WWW site from which you can access many VMD docs
• VMD FAQ - A listing of fequently asked VMD questions (plus answers)
• Mailing List - Allows you to access an archive of past VMD discussions
• Tcl - If you need hints on programming the scripting interface
• Software - Links to common programs used by VMD (i.e. renderers)

Note, you may need to have Netscape or Mosaic up and running before successfully selecting these options. That is, if you obtain a message such as ``netscape: not running on display :0.0'', then you will have to start up the program yourself, after which VMD will be able to direct you to the correct page.