From: Matthew Stewart (Matthew.Stewart_at_vu.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2013 - 18:30:51 CDT

Rejwan,

If you are referring to a variable that you have set, in this case sel, you need to add a $ to call the variable. So, your second line should be ->

$sel writepdb test.pdb

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Matthew Stewart

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From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu [mailto:owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Rejwan
Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013 7:49 AM
To: John Stone
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu; john.stone_at_gmail.com
Subject: vmd-l: writing PDB

I bit puzzled here. Not sure what I'm doing wrong in TK console in writepdb command.

>Main< (VMD) 10 % set sel [atomselect top "not (resname POPC)"]
atomselect2
>Main< (VMD) 11 % sel writepdb test.pdb
bad option "writepdb": must be clear, get, handle, or own
>Main< (VMD) 12 %

Rejwan

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