Obtaining the Licence file for WinGX

• For WinGX and Ortep-3, licence files are necessary for the programs to run. To obtain these, fill in the web form at the following page, after which a licence file will be automatically Emailed to you:
  • WinGX and ORTEP Licence Form webpage: [http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/licenseform.html]
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Downloading and installing WinGX

• Download WinGX - http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/wingx/ver164.html
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  (And any other program you are interested in Installing as part of the WinGX suite - Win DIRDIF, Ortep-3, Win Platon, GUI WinSTRUPLO, Povray, etc)

  (There is also a new method of adding "user defined" programs)

• Extract the Setup.exe file using WinZIP for PKZIP into a temporary directory such as c:\temp

• Run the setup.exe program and install into the default c:\wingx directory.

  

• Now copy over the licence file you have received via E-mail to the WinGX directory as: WinGX-license (normally c:\wingx\ is the installation directory).

• Edit (or create) the c:\autoexec.bat file and add the following lines.
  

  SET WINGXDIR=c:\wingx
  SET CHECKDEF=c:\wingx\files\check.def
  SET PGFONT=c:\wingx\files\grfont.dat
  
  set RASEXE=c:\wingx\for_prog\raswin.exe
  set NETEXE=c:\progra~1\netscape\commun~1\program\netscape.exe
  set POVEXE=c:\progra~1\pov-ra~1\bin\pvengine.exe
  

  (Reboot your computer for these changes to take effect)

• Read the installation file for some extra information. [http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/wingx/install.html]
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• This includes information on obtaining program for plugging into WinGX such as Win Dirdif, Povray, Ortep-3, GUI WinSTRUPLO, etc....

• Run WinGX, enter into Files, SYSTEM, Applications to link in the plugin programs such as graphics viewer, VRML viewer, etc.

  

• Other Preferences can be set via the File, System, Preferences menu

  

• If you have trouble with running out of environment space, put the following line in your c:\config.sys and roboot. (if the c:\config.sys file does not exist on your system, create it with a text editor)
  SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:2048 /P

• If you are running WinGX from a shared network or directory area where you do not have write permissions to the wingx.ini file, WinGX may not be able to do basic functions as it requires to be able to write to the wingx.ini file.

  There are two solutions to this.

  1. Make the main wingx.ini file writable (there is a risk that this might be accidentally overwritten as a result).

  2. Every user has their own copy of the wingx.ini configuration file using the SET WINGXDIR parameter to point to this in their local c:\autoexec.bat or user specific network parameter file.

     (e.g., SET WINGXDIR=g:\users\lachlan\wingx )