Hi folks: I've been playing around a bit with elbow.builder, and found the following: -------------- elbow.builder --opt --smiles c1ccccc1 gives me a nice, flat, hexagonal benzene elbow.builder --gamess --smiles c1ccccc1 gives me a benzene that is slightly bent out of plane and has other small distortions with respect to 6-fold symmetry. Is this a problem with elbow, a problem with gamess, or a Jahn-Teller effect? ------------ Also, I noticed elbow.doc requires a mozilla or netscape executable. Since both of these are obsolete, maybe a firefox executable should be an option? On OS X, "open" should open a URL in the user's favorite browser, but it doesn't seem to work right with Safari (which stupidly opens a Finder window of the directory containing the html file). My workaround was to make a shell script called "mozilla" that invokes Camino: #!/bin/zsh -f /usr/bin/open -a Camino "$@" HTH someone. ------------------ Bill William G. Scott contact info: http://chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott