Alternative Names

Associated with each molecule is a full name, usually an IUPAC name, an a set of Alternative names to be used when the mechanism is printed. The alternative names usually have restrictions as to number of characters and what characters are to be allowed within the name.
This menu can read in a file of molecule names (the root name of the file is given and the file needs to have the extension .mol) from the server (the file should be placed there before the action is taken. The names are looked up in the database and then listed in the table with the alternative names. The list of full name and alternative name pairs has the same root but has the extension .lst. This file is gen used when the mechanism is printed out.