Documentation
RasMol 2.7.1.1

Molecular Graphics Visualisation Tool
21 January 2001

The original RasMol manual was created by Roger Sayle. In July 1996, Dr. Margaret Wong of the Chemistry Department, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, made extensive revisions to the RasMol 2.5 manual to accurately reflect the operation of RasMol 2.6. Eric Martz of the University of Massachusetts made further revisions. In May 1997, William McClure of Carnegie Mellon University reorganized the HTML version of the manual into multiple sections which could be downloaded quickly and added use of frames. Portions of the 2.7.1 version of the RasMol manual were derived with permission from William McClure's version using Roger Sayle's rasmol.doc for version 2.6.4 as the primary source.

Translation of RasMol 2.7.1 Manual into Spanish

Thanks to the efforts of José Miguel Fernández Fernández (Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular. Universidad de Granada. España (jmfernan@ugr.es)) a translation of the Manual for Rasmol version 2.7.1 into Spanish is now available. La traducción española del manual de la versión de la Dra. Wong revisada por Eric Martz fue realizada por Isabel Serván Martínez y José Miguel Fernández Fernández. La actual traducción del Manual de RasMol 2.7.1 ha sido realizada usando como base la anterior de RasMol 2.6 por  José Miguel Fernández Fernández.

Test Version of Next Release Available

RasMol 2.7.1.1 is an interim release for testing of the integration of multilingual capabilities into RasMol. These same mods will then be integrated with pending mods, and with the basic structure of RasMol 2.7.2 to create RasMol 2.7.2.1.

A preliminary release of RasMol 2.7.2 (without the multilingual capabilities) is available at:

http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/RasMol_2.7.2

THIS IS A PRELIMINARY RELEASE INVOLVING EXTENSIVE MODIFICATIONS
***** USE WITH CAUTION ******

IMPORTANT

This version is based on RasMol version 2.6_CIF.2, on RasMol version 2.6x1 and on RasMol version 2.6.4. Please read the file NOTICE for important notices which apply to this package. If you are not going to make changes to RasMol, you are not only permitted to freely make copies and distribute them, you are encouraged to do so, provided you do the following:

• 1. Either include the complete documentation, especially the file NOTICE, with what you distribute or provide a clear indication where people can get a copy of the documentation; and
• 2. Please give credit where credit is due citing the version and original authors properly; and
• 3. Please do not give anyone the impression that the original authors are providing a warranty of any kind.

If you would like to use major pieces of RasMol in some other program, make modifications to RasMol, or in some other way make what a lawyer would call a "derived work", you are not only permitted to do so, you are encouraged to do so. In addition to the things we discussed above, please do the following:

• 4. Please explain in your documentation how what you did differs from this version of RasMol; and
• 5. Please make your modified source code available.

This version of RasMol is not in the public domain, but it is given freely to the community in the hopes of advancing science. If you make changes, please make them in a responsible manner, and please offer us the opportunity to include those changes in future versions of RasMol.

This documentation directory contains the following "gzipped" files:

All compressed files must be downloaded in binary form. Files marked "(bin)" should be transmitted in binary form, even when uncompressed.

In addition to the files listed above, there is a master rasmol document file, rasmol.doc.gz, a Makefile and a copy of Roger Sayle's document preparation program prepdoc.c which are used in creating new versions of the documentation.

For those who need uncompressed versions and can accept the longer download times, uncompressed versions are available: