I am the project manager for Chemscape at MDL. With regard to some of the questions regarding Chime(tm): * Do not download chi08w95.exe from www.dmu.ac.uk. This is an old version of Chime. We have addressed some of the initial problems discovered in this version (0.8), and have released Version 0.8a. Among the important problems we have fixed are installation failures and crash-related errors. You can download Version 0.8a, at our Web site http://www.mdli.com. We are also now providing a 16-bit version for Windows 3.1. MDL would like to have a mirror site on the other side of the Atlantic, but we would like to have the full set of Chime pages mirrored, which include an FAQ for using Chime. We will try to arrange this with one of the UK sites. * We are expiring Chime at the end of March because it is a prototype that we don't want floating around forever. We will be providing newer versions of Chime on our Web page and want users to move to them and avoid running into bugs which have already been fixed. Our intent is to make Chime free for academic users and personal use at home even for final versions. We also intend to make it free for commercial sites, but are struggling with the issue of how we would provide support services, which are important to companies. * This is a prototype (pre-Beta), and we do expect users to find problems. We plan to use the Web to provide updates as quickly as possible and address any problems. * We will be providing a Macintosh version as well as an SGI version. The Macintosh version is scheduled for completion by the end of April, but may be released (in prototype form) sooner. The SGI version is not due until early summer. * It will support TGF as well as 2D MDL Molfile and RxnFile. (There is a mistake in our FAQ regarding TGF support which I will correct.) We will be incorporating the necessary structure rendering code to do this in an upcoming version. * Netscape supports a NOEMBED tag which allows for an alternative to just displaying a blank page or "broken" plug-in image. We will have details on this in our FAQ, but just to be clear, the format is: <NOEMBED> HTML to be ignored </NOEMBED> For example: <EMBED SRC="sample1.rpm" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=134> <NOEMBED> <A SRC="sample1.ram"> Play the audio using helper app! </A></NOEMBED> We appreciate all of the feedback on Chime and will strive to address any problems. Thank you. Bryan -- Bryan Van Vliet Project Manager, Internet Technologies MDL Information Systems, Inc. bryan@mdli.com 510.895.1313 x1160 ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)