Collected here are some
non-commercial programs to help visualise molecules, prepare HTML or SGML materials
and other information suitable for preparing and reading articles in
electronic form. You
can acquire these programs simply by clicking on the hyperlink if you
have a suitable decoding program already resident on your hard disk.
If you know of any other programs that might be useful in this context,
please let us know. We hope to shortly be able to cite
commercial programs that we consider are suitable for inclusion in this list.
Unpacking the Archives
The standard decoding program on a Macintosh is "stuffit-expander"
via which all downloaded programs will pass to automatically
reconstitute working programs on your local hard disk. Unfortunately,
neither stuffit-expander nor the current versions of Netscape (1.1N/2.0)
can reconstitute stuffit-expander itself and you will need to acquire
this particular program by other means such as via a floppy disk
from your central support service. You can use the hyperlink below
to acquire the latest version (3.5.2) if the one you have is older than this.
For Microsoft Windows systems, a set of "self-extracting" .exe files have
been prepared. Click on the hyperlinks below to acquire the files. Ensure
that in the Netscape Options/Preferences/Helpers menu item,
you configure the MIME type application/octet-stream to save to disk
rather than to launch an application. You
will then have to extract the contents of the saved disk file
by entering File Mananger and double clicking the archive.
