<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You need to use a text editor like Vi or pico, both of which are included on your mac. In you applications folder, go into the utilities folder and ope Terminal. cd to your Desktop (cd Desktop) and open Vi by typing "vi" or "pico" (without quotes). These programs let you give whatever file extension you want (you want .cmd). I like Vi (I'm just used to it, there are plenty of other editors out there). Below are links to a Vi tutorial -<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#conv">http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html#conv</a></div><div><br></div><div>Elaine and Thomas - often TextEdit puts in little bits of machine code, this has caused me some grieve in the past, so I avoid that program at all costs. </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 26, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Durga Velukumar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia and I'm using your system, UCSF Chimera, for my powerpoint presentation. I'm having some problems with trying to create a movie. I have a MacBook Pro, which I just got this recent August, and downloaded the latest Chimera version for the Mac. I'm trying to save the commands in a separate file, like TextEdit, but I don't know what type of file to save it as. I'm hoping to be able to open the file through Chimera to play the movie. I tried saving the commands as "movie.cmd" but TextEdit is not allowing me to save that type of file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Durga </div></td></tr></tbody></table><br> _______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>