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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 12:11:25 CST

Hi,
  I'm still in the process of updating the VMD code to match the
new MSMS 2.5 code. Michel and I found that VMD and MSMS had some
bugs in their sockets code that communicated between MSMS and VMD, but
VMD 1.4 does not have the new interace code necessary to work with the
most recent MSMS code yet. (its a little more complicated than this, but
unless you want the low level details, I'll leave it at that..)

I'm working on this already, and the next set of VMD binaries that we
release will have been tested and known to work with the latest MSMS.

MSMS is a great program, so I know that this fix will be important to
many of the VMD users out there.
Thanks for your patience..

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:51:29AM -0600, Robert Milius wrote:
> I just downloaded MSMS 2.5 and thought I would try it out with VMD 1.4.
>
> I read in 1crn.pdb and then select MSMS from the Graphics form.
> I get the following error message in the vmd console window:
>
> Info) Starting MSMS with: 'msms -no_area -socketPort 1401 > /dev/tty &'
> ERROR) Unknown MSMS message: Too many or Too few points : 0
> Info) Done with MSMS surface.
> MSMS END
>
> msms works fine from the command line (outside of vmd).
> I couldn't find any documentation about doing anything special about
> installing MSMS for use with VMD. Did I miss something?
>
> thanks,
> bob
>
> Robert P. Milius, Ph.D. 612-626-2771 (office)
> Basic Sciences Computing Laboratory 612-625-2990 (fax)
> University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute milius_at_msi.umn.edu
> for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation
> 

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