ChemConsole v-0.4 ChemConsoleServer v-0.4 By Nathan Stevens nat250@cyberwar.com ChemConsole and ChemConsoleServer (aka CCServer) Copyright (c) 1999 Nathan Stevens, all rights reserved. Contents: 1) About 2) Installation(ChemConsole) 3) Installation(ChemConsoleServer) About: This is version 0.4 of ChemConsole and the Server Component ChemConsole Server.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 computers. Future version will have support for more application such as Gaussian or any other programs I get request to add(prefferable a paid request) or some one else decides to add. Installation (ChemConsole): 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. Installation (ChemConsoleServer): To use ChemConsoleServer you must have a JRE1.1.* VM installed, which has support for RMI (Remote Method Invocation). The only Java VM I know of that doesn't have RMI support built in is Microsoft's VM, Jview, so don't use it either for the Client or the Server. The host computer must also have networking configured correctly else the Server will not work. The first thing you need to do get the CCServer-0.4.tar.gz file. For win32 users you will need to get a tool that can extract this kind of file. I personally 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 in a zip file, so you will have to unzip it. Next follow the instructions for installing ChemConsole to finish the rest of the installation. There should now be a directory named CCS-0.4 in the installation directory. Change to CCS-0.4 directory and using a text editor edit the startup script "ccs.sh" or the bat file "ccs.bat" to fit your specific platform. Note: You must have networking properly configured on the Host Computer for the ChemConsoleServer to work properly.