
Abcmol 

This is a modified version of RasMol designed to accept input in the
.abc format, which is used by the Tbtools molecular modeling
package. RasMol was written by Roger Sayle and further developed by
several others. It is released under an open source license described
in RasMol_Notice.txt. The modifications of necessary for reading .abc
files were made by Stephen Jordan.

To compile Abcmol it should suffice to execute make in the directory
containing the source code. Then try executing abcmol. If you get the
error message "No suitable display detected," this probably means that
the color depth is incorrectly set in the makefile. In Makefile there
are the following three lines:

DEPTHDEF = -DTHIRTYTWOBIT
# DEPTHDEF = -DSIXTEENBIT
# DEPTHDEF = -DEIGHTBIT

Comment out the first line by prefacing it with a # and uncomment
whichever line you think will work on your computer, execute "make
clean" followed by make, and then try running abcmol again.

By default abcmol assumes that its inputs are in .abc format. The
command "abcmol foo.abc" should cause a window to pop up displaying
foo.abc. Additional commands have been provided to handle the extra
data fields that can be added to .abc files. To use these commands
first type abcmol. Then you should be given an abcmol command
prompt. Type "load abcN foo.abc", where N is a number 1 through
4. Loading abc4 will cause the color of the bonds to be determined by
the data field of the bond lines in the .abc files. Loading abc1,
abc2, or abc3, will cause the color of the atoms to be determined by
the first, second, or third optional data field in the atom lines,
respectively.

In almost all other respects, abcmol is just RasMol and the RasMol
documentation is the best place to look for further information.

 
