Electronic Conferences on Trends in Organic Chemistry

Programs You Need

To participate in the ECTOC/ECHET96 Conferences, you may need a variety of "helper" programs or their "plug-in" equivalents (a full list of plug-ins is

available here). Some of these are used to browse the conferences, others are needed by authors to help write articles or posters. Some programs are commercial, and cannot be distributed here; others are "freeware" or "shareware". You can acquire these programs simply by clicking on the hyperlink. Before doing so, check if you have a suitable decoding program already resident on your hard disk.

The standard decoding program on a Macintosh is "Stuffit-Expander" from Aladdin Systems, via which all downloaded programs will pass to automatically reconstitute working programs on your local hard disk (you should always check that the resultant programs are virus free!). If you are using Netscape 2 or 3 to view this page, proceed as follows to acquire this program;
- 1. Go into Netscape General Preferences, Helper Apps panel
- 2. Change the preference for application/mac-binhex40 from "Launch Application StuffItExpander" to "Use Netscape as Viewer"
- 3. Download the file directly from Aladdin stuffit_exp_40_installer.hqx or from this site (BinHex, 272 KB) Note: Netscape Navigator will automatically do the BinHex decoding.
- 4. Change the preference for application/mac-binhex40 back to "Launch Application StuffItExpander"
- 5. Run the StuffIt Expander installer
For more details, see here. If you do not have access to Netscape 2.0 or higher, you will have to acquire this particular program by other means such as via a floppy disk from your central support service, or from a colleague who does have it. You can also contact Aladdin who will send it for a small handling and postage fee. You can use the hyperlink below to acquire the latest version (4.0) if the one you have is older.
For Microsoft Windows systems, a set of "self-extracting" .exe files have been prepared. Stuffit Expander for Windows is also available. Click on the hyperlinks below to acquire the files. Ensure that in the Netscape Options/General Preferences/Helpers menu item, you configure the MIME type application/octet-stream to save to disk rather than to launch an application. You will then have to extract the contents of the saved disk file by entering File Mananger and double clicking the archive (Win-31) or double clicking directly (Win-95 or NT).

**Useful Programs for Viewing/Creating World-Wide Web Documents.**
Utility	Macintosh (68K, PPC)	Microsoft Windows (3.1, 95 or NT)
Browser	Netscape for Mac	Netscape for Windows
Browser	Microsoft Internet Explorer	Microsoft Internet Explorer
Archive extraction	Stuffit Expander	Stuffit Expander
VRML Browser	Live3D	Selection of programs
MCF Site Navigation	Hotsauce	Hotsauce
E-mail	Eudora Lite	Eudora Lite
Conversions to HTML	rtftohtml	rftohtml
Conversions to HTML	Internet Assistant	Internet Assistant
Commercial HTML	HotMetal Pro	HotMetal Pro
	PageMill	HotDog Pro
	Netscape Gold	Netscape Gold
	Claris Home Page	Claris Home Page
Graphics	GraphicConverter	Paint Shop Pro 4.1
Chemistry Programs
Chemistry 2D Viewers	ISIS/Draw 2.0	ISIS/Draw 2.1
	CS Chemdraw Net	CS ChemDraw Net
	Accord Chemistry Viewer	Accord Chemistry Viewer
	ChemWeb	ChemWeb
Chemistry 3D Viewers	RasMac 2.6	RasWin 2.6 and RasMenu
	Chemscape Chime from MDLI	Chemscape Chime from MDLI (95/NT), (W31)
	CS Chem3D Net	CS Chem3D Net
	MSI WebLab Viewer	MSI WebLab Viewer

Table cells in yellow indicate programs on local archive. Table cells in green indicate a remote archive, and you will need an Internet connection to acquire them.