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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 11:03:28 CDT

Dallas,
  We'll see if we can write up a PLT file loader for VMD shortly.
The format looks quite similar to the other volumetric files we
already support. Are you using the ASCII or binary versions of
these files BTW?

Thanks,
  John

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:55:31PM +1000, Dallas Warren wrote:
> John,
>
> OK, have managed to find out what the file format it. It is called
> "plt-format", which is meant to be native to gOpenMol. It is a binary file
> format, with a three dimensional array with some indices in the
> header. Details of the format is here:
> http://www.csc.fi/gopenmol/developers/plt_format.phtml
>
> Catch ya,
>
> Dr. Dallas Warren
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> Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
> Victorian College of Pharmacy, Monash University
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