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From: Andrew Dalke (dalke_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 05 1997 - 22:47:42 CST

Hello all,

  I was benchmarking VMD on an Octane today (FYI, the graphics is
the same as the high end Indigo2, but the processor is about twice
as fast) and I got the latest vmd_IRIX.Z that I often mention in
this mailing list. Much to my chagrin, it didn't work. Last
week I upgraded VMD to use the latest versions of Tcl and TclX.
As it turns out, the startup scripts needed by TclX changed
quite a bit and it isn't backward compatible to the files from the
standard VMD distribution.
  Thus, if you are one of the people that gets the vmd_IRIX5 binary
I provide (for example, if you want to use the new 'snapshot'
renderer) you will have to get 'scripts.tar.Z' as well. Here
are the instructions to use the two files:
  cd $VMDDIR
  ftp ftp.ks.uiuc.edu
  cd /pub/group/dalke
  binary
  get vmd_IRIX5.Z
  get scripts.tar.Z
  quit
  mv vmd_IRIX5 vmd_IRIX5.old
  uncompress vmd_IRIX5
  chmod +x vmd_IRIX5
  mv scripts scripts.old
  zcat scripts.tar.Z | tar -xf -

and that _should_ do it. If there are any problems, please contact me,
or you can revert to your previous version by:
  rm vmd_IRIX5
  mv vmd_IRIX5.old vmd_IRIX5
  rm -r scripts
  mvd scripts.old scripts

The other solution is to wait a week or two until the "official" 1.2b1
release is made.

  I apologize for the inconvience,
                                                Andrew
                                                dalke_at_ks.uiuc.edu