COMP Newsletter (Spring/Summer 1994 issue) on-line!



 Dear Computational Chemists and Others:
 The Spring/Summer issue of the COMP Newsletter, the official publication of
 the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, is now
 available on-line.  This issue contains 28 pages of useful articles and
 information about the COMP division, upcoming meetings, and other topics
 of interest.  A partial table of contents includes:
 Electronic Discussion Forum for Computational Chemists
 by Jan Labanowski and Charles Bender
 Northern Illinois University Chemistry Gopher Site
 by Steve Bachrach
 A Sea-Change in Chemical Communication: Gophers and World-Wide-Web Systems
 by Henry Rzepa
 Opportunities in Computational Chemistry
 by Allen Richon and Merry Ambos
 Workshop on Building a Collaboratory in Environmental and Molecular Science
 by Richard Kouzes, James Myers and John Price
 Mosaic - You gotta have it!
 by Tom Pierce
 You can obtain the Newsletter in any one of four formats:
 	text only (no graphics)				105 KB
 	rich text format or .RTF (no graphics)		139 KB
 	encapsulated Postscript (no graphics)		734 KB
 	encapsulated Postscript (with graphics)	      7,560 KB
 These are available via anonymous ftp as newslet1.txt, newslet1.rtf,
 compnop.eps and compp.eps in /pub/chemistry/documents/COMP_Newsletter. They
 are also available at the via Gopher and WWW at CCl.
 These files, plus their zipped equivalents, are also available at the
 University of Toledo via anonymous ftp.  The zipped files can be unzipped
 using pkzip/pkunzip, and are significantly smaller (the files are 40 KB,
 43 KB, 227 KB and 1,141 KB, respectively).  To access this site, follow
 the instructions below.
      ftp  FTP.UTOLEDO.EDU (or 131.183.1.4)
      login: anonymous password: your_e-mail_address (please !).
      ftp> cd [.MMOD] for mail archives or cd [.CHEMISTRY....]
      for all other files.
      ftp> ls or dir (to  get the  listing of  all  files  which  are
      there.  Note this is a VAX VMS machine and ls -l will not work.
      ls will get you a short list, while dir will get you the more
      informative list, including sizes and dates of files.)
      ftp> get file_you_want.
      ftp> quit.
 The newsletter also contains a form for joining the COMP Division.  Please
 take advantage of it, you get quite a lot for only $5 per year.
 The next newsletter, the Fall/Winter edition, will be prepared following
 the fall 1994 ACS Meeting in Anaheim.  Persons interested in contributing
 a piece or an advertisement are welcome to contact me.
 Douglas A. Smith
 (WATCH FOR CHANGES IN THIS .SIG IN THE NEAR FUTURE)
 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
 Center for Drug Design and Development
  and
 Chairman-elect, ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry
 The University of Toledo
 Toledo, OH  43606-3390
 voice    419-537-2116
 fax      419-537-4033
 email    dsmith-: at :-uoft02.utoledo.edu