                                                                    
                         ChemConsole v-0.4
			        By
			   Nathan Stevens
			 nat250@cyberwar.com
			   
			   
Contents:
  1) About
  2) Installation
  3) Using
  4) Bugs
  5) Change log
  6) TO DO
  
About:
  ChemConsole provides a GUI to legacy Chemistry applications and allows 
  network access  to those applications. The current version of ChemConsole 
  supports Babel v-1.6 and MOPAC7 on the local and network computer. Future 
  version will have support for more application such as Gaussian or 
  any other programs  I get request to add or some one else decides to add.

Installation:
  To run ChemConsole you must  have the JRE  v1.1.7 and Swing 1.03 or later 
  installed and configured properly. These programs can be obtained from Sun's
  JavaSoft  web site, www.javasoft.com . ChemConsole may work with earlier 
  version of the JRE and Swing, but I haven't tested it.

  The first thing you need to do get the ChemConsole-0.4.tar.gz file.
  For win32 users you will need to get a tool that can extract this
  kind of file. I personly use a program called "untgz095". It can be found
  at:
  ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/untgz095.zip 
  As you can see it's zip file, so you will have to unzip it.  

  Next change to the directory in which you plan to install the program and
  extract the program file using the appropriate method. For Unix this 
  would be "tar zxvf ChemConsole-0.4.tar.gz". In win32, using "untgz095", 
  this would be "untgz32 ChemConsole-0.4.tar.gz". Remember to put the 
  untgz095 binary files in your PATH.
  This should create directory name Chemc-0.4 in the directory you
  extracted the program file. Finally change to the Chemc-0.4 directory and
  open the start up script, either chemc.sh or chemc.bat, with your favorite
  text editor and set the location of the JRE and swing directories. Once 
  this is done you are ready to run the program.
     
  If you plan to use ChemConsole in network mode you will need to get the 
  Server Component, CCServer-0.4.tar.gz. 
  Once you installed the  Server Component, take a look at the README.txt 
  file in the installation directory to see how to configure and use it.
  
Using:
  Change to the directory in which you install the ChemConsole and execute the
  start up script. This   will open up the main ChemConsole window with the 
  default tool, in this case  it will be Babel. Goto the Tool menu and choose 
  the Configure menu item. The Configure dialog should now be visible.  Next 
  choose the Babel tab and set the location for the Babel version 1.6 binary  
  ( note : the program will only work correctly with Babel v-1.6 ); do the 
  same for Mopac. You are now ready to use the program.

Bugs:
  Since this is the  early release there may be/are some  bugs I missed. 
  One "bug" that might be a problem on win32 is that I don't know if  
  *.bat files will be executed properly in Java. This will only be a   
  problem for programs that use *.bat file to start them such as some
  versions   of Mopac. The problem is not a with my code or Java, but 
  rather the limitations of the DOS OS and NT(nee Win2K). 

  If you find a bug please let me know by sending a detailed description of 
  the bug to my e-mail address ( nat250@cyberwar.com ). Better yet you can fix
  it and send the source file with the fix  back to me, so that I can include 
  it in future versions of ChemConsole.     

Change Log:
  1) Added the FileGetter, fileViewer, and ServerStats utilities. 
  2) Cleaned up the code some
  3) Improved the networking code
  4) Coded the second version of the Server(CCServer)

TO-DO:
  1)  Implement the Gaussian Tools.
  2)  Clean up code
  3)  Do a real make file
  4)  Create a wed site for program. 
  5)  Port to JFC 1.1(Java 2)
  6)  Add support for two version of babel, 1.1 and 1.6
  7)  Add tool to remotely configure server
  8)  Add Toolbar
  9)  Add restart support for MOPAC  
  10) Add GAMMES support
  11) Add an about Dialog with scrolling text





