How to build GAMESS (26 October 2000) with CHARMM: This is example for gnu platforms, but it should work with others, too. 1. run install.com gnu medium M X Q This way one obtains the tool/gmscomp_gnu file 2. copy *.src gms.tgz files to source/gamint directory 3. copy gamess.fcm to the source/fcm directory 4. in source/gamint do rm -r gamess 5. in source/gamint unpack: gunzip -c gms.tgz | tar -xvf - 6. cd tool 7. setmk.com gnu # or whatever your platform is 8. If you are on Linux (or using GNU compilers) you may copy Makefile_gnu to build/gnu and pre.dat-for-gnu to build/gnu/pref.dat 9. rm -r lib 10. install.com gnu # or whatever your platform is