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Combining RasMol Variants

Herbert J. Bernstein (yaya@bernstein-plus-sons.com)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:38:51 -0500 

  After discussion with Roger Sayle, we have decided to bring at least
three of the current RasMol variants together into a common version.
Anyone using any of the following variants of RasMol is invited to submit
bug reports over the next couple of weeks to rasmol@bernstein-plus-sons.com:

  RasMol_2.6.4 (Roger Sayle's February 1999 version)
    from ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/rasmol/RasMol2.tar.gz
  RasMol_2.6b2x1 (Arne Mueller's May 1998 variant)
    from ftp://nexus.roko.goe.net/pub/rasmol/RasMol26b2x1.tar.gz
  RasMol_2.6_CIF.1 (Herbert Bernstein's January 1999 variant)
    from http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/rasmol

If you are using any other versions and having a problem, please get one of
these three versions and check if your problem is reproducible with one of
these three versions.

  Sometime in mid-March, we will release version 2.7.0 of RasMol containing
as many of the features and bug fixes related to these three versions as we
can get to work in a single version in such a short time-frame, and will
then create versions 2.7.1, 2.7.2, etc. as problems are reported.  Features
from other variants of RasMol will be considered for inclusion in RasMol
2.7.n if the features are particularly popular and if available resources
(or helpful colleagues) make inclusion of those features feasible.  When we
are done, probably in the early fall, the resulting best version should be
a reasonably stable and reliable single version combining most of the
features of the major current variants of RasMol.

   -- Herbert J. Bernstein

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