Neat things to use AMMP for

If you've installed the windows version of AMMP on your PC and are running Windows 95 or Windows NT then there are a number of cute things you can do.

• Open AMMP files over the internet and on other machines.
  Coordinates to view:
  
  • Di-imino benzoic acid (small)
    
  • Pamoic acid (small)
    
  • Alpha Dendrotoxin (0.5M) a snake venom toxin
    
  • HIV protease (1.2M)

  Open the file rather than save it to disk, and AMMP will come right up. (but you will have to open the display window yourself). With Microsoft's explorer the files are saved to "temporary internet files" and can then be saved to another location if you want. (Netscape does something similar, but I'm not exactly sure what).

  This also works over networked machines with both pcnfs and "the microsoft network". Linux users can try Samba which really works well.
  

• Prewin (the program to convert coordinates) can also use multiple networked machines
  

• The HTML (web page) zip file distribution can be opened by winzip and similar programs so you can grab only the parts you want.
• Paste Graphical Images.

  AMMP generates "windows metafile" commands when the command is used. These metafile data can be converted by many other windows programs including paint and word. If you're going to use them in a paper, directly insert the metafile data into the document, rather than go through a bitmap editor. This will give you the highest quality picture. Images can even be pasted to icon editors in programs such as Borland's C++ or Microsoft visual C++. This can result in neat icons for other applications.

If these don't work, then the registry is probably not set up right. The registry is just a scary name for how windows keeps track of file types and other system data. The AMMP distribution will not automatically set registry entries because I hate it when a program does that. The simplest way to set the registry entries is to open the windows explorer (the "my computer" icon not Internet explorer) and find an "*.ammp" file. Click on the file to open it and then browse to find your copy of AMMP. You probably should do the same thing for "*.amp" files. Make sure you set the "always use this program" check box or else the association is lost.