Brian Salter-Duke wrote;

Much as I appreciate Henry's love of the Mac - I'm using one right now, although at home - I do think the solution to his problem must be platform independent including working on unix machines - linux and others, as well as PC and Mac. Is there any possibility of this?

I have to correct an earlier posting, in which I implied that a proprietary system such as Sherlock might be useable in a cross platform environment. I understand from Apple themselves that they consider this a MacOS only tool. If the chemistry community does indeed seek to have a cross-platform "chemistry" collection of search engines, alternative standards will have to be investigated, eg those I noted in my earlier posting. Henry Rzepa. +44 171 594 5774 (Office) +44 171 594 5804 (Fax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)