For future releases of the Open Source SHELX, I am planning to provide precompiled binaries only for Windows, Linux and IntelMac from now on. This would save me a lot of hassle because I can then use the Intel compiler throughout and would no longer need to take the idiosyncracies of other FORTRAN compilers for the IBMMacs into account (IBM no longer support their own compiler that I was using up to now). The current IBMMac binaries would continue to be available for a couple of years but without further updates. Alternatively IBMMac users, like the surviving SGI users, can compile the programs themselves; however as before I reserve the right to release only binaries and not sources of new algorithms that have not yet been peer reviewed (like a PDB deposition; some people actually read my code). If this would cause major problems please say now or for ever hold your peace!
George Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS Dept. Structural Chemistry, University of Goettingen, Tammannstr. 4, D37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel. +49-551-39-3021 or -3068 Fax. +49-551-39-2582
