Jan Labanowski, 1997 The xyz2bs.pl Perl script converts molecular structure files in XYZ format (used by XMol and many other programs) to a format required by xbs program. It is used as: xyz2bs.pl myfile.xyz where myfile.xyz contains data in the XYZ format. As a result the script produces a file myfile.bs which contains the molecular description required for xbs program. It may also produce the myfile.mv file in case when myfile.xyz contains the multiple frames for animations. In these case the .mv file contains frames 2 until last. ------------- The xyz2bs.c is a program in C language which should do exactly the same thing as xyz2bs.pl. Mostly written for educational purposes. You can compile it with cc -o xyz2bs xyz2bs.c -lm ------------- ch3oh1.xyz -- an example of XYZ file with several frames representing vibrations ch3oh1.bs -- first frame for xbs program ch3oh1.mv -- frame2 till last for xbs program ------------- Please contribute more utilities to Jan Labanowski jkl@ccl.net