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ZINC

interface to CIF for standard Unix tools

Description

ZINC provides an interface to CIF for standard Unix tools.

Distribution

Status

These utilities are no longer actively maintained.

Language and platform

The software is written in C with some Bourne shell and Perl scripts. It should compile and run in a command-line environment on any common Unix-like operating system with a suitable C compiler, Perl interpreter and common shell tools.

Documentation

  • Installation: Copy the compressed tar file zinc.tar.Z into an empty directory; uncompress and extract files using the Unix tar utility. Then use the make utility to build the application:
     

     cp zinc.tar.Z /x/y/z; uncompress zinc.tar.Z; tar xvf zinc.tar
     make

    If compress or tar are unavailable, individual source files may be saved to the build directory.

  • ZINC - Galvanizing CIF to work with Unix (BNL internal report; PDF format)
  • ZINC - Galvanizing CIF to work with Unix (presentation given at Brussels mmCIF workshop; PDF format)

Terms and conditions of use

Copyright in the software © the author.
Author: D. R. Stampf

The software is distributed here under the standard terms and conditions of use applying to software associated with International Tables for Crystallography Volume G.