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- Jim King - January 1991
-
- Chemtab supports the following devices:
- ANY terminal which can utilize the curses screen functions
- * Graphic Periodic Table - ANY VT1XX compatible
- * Graphing routine (normal) - any curses terminal
- * Graphics routing (ReGIS) - any ReGIS compatible (VT240, VT3XX)
-
- Chemtab was designed to work on any terminal that has an entry
- in the /etc/termcap file and has cursor movement sequences in that
- entry!
-
- How to setup Chemtab to work at your site..
-
- WARNING: Chemtab has only been tested under Ultrix 3.1 on a VAX 11/780,
- and a DEC 5810 RISC Ultrix 4.1 machine. Chemtab, as is, will
- probably only work for BSD compatible systems. SYSV compatibility
- is on it's way! I promise! Since chemtab uses curses, it should
- prove to be portable.
-
- Any comments, suggestions, bugs can be reported to:
- jek5036@ultb.isc.rit.edu (formerly pulsar@xait.xerox.com!lsrhs)
-
- How to setup:
- (1) Change the Makefile to suit your site. Currently, the makefile will
- compile with cc, with the -O option for optimization, and the new
- ReGIS flag for DEC ReGIS compatible terminals.
- (2) Change tune.h to suit your needs.
- (3) Change the directions on how to get to your printer at the end of cleanup.c
- Or, just remove those print statements. (The statement you want to change
- is in comments. This is only helpful if you are running a classroom full
- of students, each wanting a printout and not knowing how to get it.)
- (4) Type the command, 'make'
- (5) There are some text files which chemtab needs to use, namely:
- elist, pertab, pertab_graphic, online_help, closevalues
- These should be put in a library directory somewhere where chemtab
- can read all of these. In that same directory, chemtab will need to
- write to two files: logfile (if you want one) and binlist (binary
- element list (faster to read in)). Please make this so. I would
- have incorporated it into the Makefile but some people would rather
- make sure it worked for them...
-
- That SHOULD be the extent of it.. but don't quote me on that. I am the
- author, and I am not held responsible for any damage the program might cause,
- however it's not programmed to do any damage whatsoever.
-
- I realize that the directions are sketchy, but I am a programmer,
- not a documenter (or a commenter for that matter)..
-
- If you decide to use this program in a classroom environment, please send me
- mail over the internet at jek5036@ultb.isc.rit.edu. I would love to hear
- from anyone who uses chemtab 2.01! Thanks.. - Jim
-