===> Installing the MindTool series of programs and utilities. <=== Note: Ignore the transfer/de-tar instructions if you have a distribution tape. This directory contains the necessary tar file for the MindTool series of programs. Be sure to set 'bin' mode before transferring. Uncompress mindtool.tar.Z and de-tar the archive with: 1) uncompress mindtool.tar 2) tar xvf mindtool.tar This should have created ./mindtool, ./mind, ./graphics, and ./freeread. You should verify that the following directories exist: /usr/local/lib /usr/local/icons /usr/man/manl /usr/local/bin The programs can be installed in other locations, simply change the BINDIR, LIBDIR ... definitions in the various Makefiles. There are two libraries that need to be built: libgraphics.a and libFree.a cd to ./graphics and type 'make install'. Do this in turn to ./freeread, ./mind, and ./mindtool. This should be all that is needed to install the MindTool program. Users with SunOS4.1.x installed should see ./graphics/README4.1.x for directions on linking to the CGI libraries. The CGI libraries are available with the standard SunOS, under the "optional" graphics installation. The program 'mugs' is used to manipulate PostScript files (i.e., N-up printing, stereo plotting, rotating, etc.). We are currently running the programs on SPARCstations and a 4/260 (color and monochrome) with SunOS4.1.1 and FORTRAN 1.4. Our printer is an Apple LaserWriter IINT. Note: We currently append a control-D to the end of the PostScript file, which is also a valid EPS file. This may bother some spoolers, if your spooler complains, comment out the CONTROL_D flag in ./graphics/Makefile and remake ./graphics and ./mind. Also, if your default printer is not PostScript, be sure to set your PRINTER environment variable to one that handles PostScript, or "plot" to a file and print it with the spooler/printer of your own choice. We would like to know what you think of the above programs. If you have any improvements/suggestions, please send us a note. If you run into any problems, please don't hesitate to give us a call (203) 432-6288 or send us email at jim@doctor.chem.yale.edu, julian@doctor.chem.yale.edu. Best Wishes, Jim Blake Julian Tirado-Rives ====================== From sunc!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!news Fri May 17 23:57:45 EDT 1991 Article 41674 of sci.chem: Xref: sunc alt.sys.sun:3375 sci.chem:41674 Path: sunc!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!news >From: jim@doctor.chem.yale.edu (James F. Blake) Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,sci.chem Subject: MindTool availability for molecular visualization. Message-ID: <1991May14.145323.28662@cs.yale.edu> Date: 14 May 91 14:53:23 GMT Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Laboratory for Computational Chemistry, Yale University Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: doctor.chem.yale.edu Julian Tirado-Rives and myself have written a SunView based molecular display and analysis program called MindTool. The program runs on Sun's and displays the 3-D structures of molecules in wireframe and ball-n-stick format. Hardcopy output in PostScript format can be sent to a LaserWriter or file (valid EPS) for inclusion in documents. (cf., Blake, J.F.; Jorgensen, W.L. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1990, 112, 7269.) One may annotate plots with text, lines, arrows, and arcs. A utility program, mugs, may be used on saved PostScript files to place many pictures on a page. A copy of the MindTool program and related libraries can be transferred from: rani.chem.yale.edu (130.132.25.65). Login via anonymous ftp and cd to "pub/MindTool", get the README file. The tar file mindtool.tar.Z should be transferred in binary mode and installed as in the README file. Jim