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From: Kevin DeMarco (kdemarco_at_ucdavis.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 04 2008 - 18:30:19 CDT

Axel,

It could be an OS issue, like you say, but it would be strange
considering that the same version of VMD compiled for PPC, but running
on my Intel Mac, doesn't have the same problem. It's the same machine/
OS.

-Kevin

On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Kevin DeMarco wrote:
>
> KDM> Hello,
>
> kevin,
>
> the symptoms that you describe point towards a bug
> in the operating system. have you checked with apple
> support? if you use the same version of VMD, it should
> work (or fail) the same way unless the operating system
> does something different. perhaps they implemented some
> simple minded "bugfix" for a buffer overflow...
>
> cheers,
> axel.
>
> KDM>
> KDM> I recently upgraged to Mac OS 10.5.3 and now VMD is no longer
> loading parm7
> KDM> files with a long path.
> KDM>
> KDM> Specifically, the message I get is: "Users/kevin/Documents/My
> KDM> Documents/School Related/UCDavis/Lab
> KDM> Work/MDStudies/Topomer/Modeller/Model2/m1mod/300/proGm1mo: No
> such file or
> KDM> directory"
> KDM>
> KDM> The actual file name should be "proGm1mod.top" but VMD is now
> truncating
> KDM> the end of the filename and thus not finding the file. This is
> affecting
> KDM> all recent versions of VMD on Mac OS X X86 on my installation
> of Leopard.
> KDM> Interestingly, I tried running a PPC version, and it loads the
> file no
> KDM> problem, albeit slowly because it's emulated.
> KDM>
> KDM> Is there a fix for this? I'd like to run the native version,
> and not have
> KDM> to move all of my work directories closer to the root just to
> be able to
> KDM> load topology files.
> KDM>
> KDM> Thanks!
> KDM> -Kevin
> KDM>
>
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