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From: Tyler Heibeck (heibeck_at_chem.bu.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 11:30:20 CDT

The new script that you posted fixed the problem. As for my old
set-up, STRIDE would work only if I was longed in as root, odd. All
the permissions seemed to be set up properly. I did not try to find
out way this problem was occurring, because the new installation
worked find. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Thank you for your help and the quick response. I look forward to
using VMD from the convenience of my desktop Mac. OS 10 is turning
out to be a very nice platform for doing science.

Tyler Heibeck

>Dear Tyler,
> Apparently our local MacOS X installation (or our login scripts)
>sets the TMPDIR environment variable which is why we hadn't seen this
>problem previously. I just tried it out again, without setting that
>variable, and I encountered the exact problem you describe below.
>When the environment variable is set, I'm able to run Stride on
>various molecules. I'm going to make a revision to the vmd startup
>script to avoid the TMPDIR problem on MacOS X.
>
>Does this sequence of commands work on your system:
> mol delete all
> mol pdbload 1tit
> mol modstyle 0 top Cartoon
>
>Let us know how it turns out.
>
>Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> 

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