Re: [AMBER] AMBER 4.1 Manual

From: Romelia Salomon <romelia.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:03:41 -0800 (PST)

Thanks David!!




> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013, Romelia Salomon wrote:
>>
>> I hope the manual appears somewhere, but the files are really helping so
>> far :)
>
> See the attached file.
>
> Historical note: The Amber 4.1 manual was written in troff, using the
> "me" macro set. As best I can tell, users were given the source files
> (e.g., prep.me, link.me) and a Makefile for creating postscript versions,
> either of the individual chapters or the entire manual.
>
> It is comforting that typing "make book.ps" still works, creating a
> complete typset manual in less than a second, from sources created in 1995
> (but executables from a modern Linux release). I converted book.ps to
> amber4.1_manual.pdf to make things more useful in the current century.
>
> Another historical note: In spite of it's "dot-release" name, Amber 4.1
> was a
> major upgrade from version 4.0. Relevant to the current discussion, it
> was
> the first version that had anything resembling a "manual", as opposed to a
> loose collection of text files. Even so, it's pretty crude: there is a
> table
> of contents, but no index or bibliography.
>
> ....dac
>
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