Setting Up RasMol as a WWW Helper Application
Macintosh (RasMac):
Add the following to your configuration file (in Netscape, this is under Options:Preferences:Helper Applications)
- MIME type: chemical
- Subtype: x-pdb
- Extension: pdb
- File type: TEXT
- Application: RasMac v2.5
- Action: Launch
Windows (RasWin):
Add the following to your mosaic.ini file
- Under Viewers (?? means to input the next number):
- TYPE??="chemical/x-pdb"
- TYPE??="chemical/x-xyz"
- Under the executable mappings:
- chemical/x-pdb=c:\raswin\rasmenu.exe %ls
- chemical/x-xyz=c:\raswin\rasmenu.exe %ls
- Under Suffixes:
- chemical/x-pdb=.pdb
- chemical/x-pdb=.pdb
X-windows (RasMol):
- Add (or create and add) the following to your .mailcap file
- chemical/x-pdb; rasmol %s
- chemical/x-xyz; xmol -readFormat xyz %s
The RasMol manual is available on-line. Other useful information about chemical
MIME types can be found here.
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Updated 1/10/96
