Philip Bays sent [11.10a gmt 2004 March 19 Friday] : >This is not exactly what I meant. I have this vague memory >(senility is setting in!) that when we first began using Chime many >years ago, the campus IT staff had to do something on their end >before the local machines would properly display structures, even >though chime was installed on the local machine. Am I remembering >correctly, and is there something we need to do in the present case? > all a server does is hand the file to your local browser. no configuration is necessary on the server for this to happen properly.
the problem arises when we try to tell your *local* browser how to find Jmol.app when it is handed a mol file. but that is a local machine issue, not a server issue. regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest >Phil > >On Mar 19, 2004, at 9:14 AM, Robert B. Grossman wrote: > >>Phil said: >> >>>I have this faint recollection that when you set up Chime there is >>>also something that has to be done on the server side; that is, >>>you cannot just set it up on your machine and have it work. Your >>>organizational web server must in some way know something to do >>>with particular file types before you get it. Does that sound >>>familiar, and might that be an issue here as well? >> >>Yes, that is true. When I first started giving ACS journals MOL >>files to display as WEOs, Netscape 4.7 for Mac didn't recognize >>them as MOL files, because the ACS Web server was delivering them >>with a MIME type that said, "This is a text file." They had to >>change something server-side to deliver the file with the correct >>MIME type. Interestingly, this didn't seem to be a problem on PCs, >>because when the PC browser received a file for which the MIME type >>and extension directed it to do different things, the extension >>took precedence. On the Mac, the MIME type took precedence. >> >>Anyway, the ACS fixed its problems, and the MOL files are now being >>delivered with the correct MIME types. I'm using the same MOL >>files that work with Chime, just to be sure there's nothing wrong >>with them. So I don't think it's the issue. >> >>Although MacOS X now recognizes Jmol as an application (thanks, >>Henry, Tim, and Phil!), it is still not possible to set Jmol as the >>default app for opening MOL files. I've posted a message to Apple >>to see if there's a bug in the Finder, a flaw in Jmol, or neither. >> >>-- Bob >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net >>email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial >>presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo >>technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system >>administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op= >>click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users >>mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users >> >> >J. Philip Bays Professor of Chemistry Science Hall 158 Saint Mary's >College Notre Dame IN 46556 (574) 284-4663 > > > >------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net >email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial >presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo >technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system >administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op= >click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users >mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
