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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 14:33:41 CST

Diss,
  At present VMD can't automatically decompress files, but that's
something I'd like to implement as a new class of plugin sometime soon.
Ideally it'd work for all filetypes then, and would work with Unix,
Windows, etc.

  John

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Diss Romain wrote:
> Hi,
> Is it possible for VMD to directly read a gziped file (.pdb.gz, .crd.gz, ...)
> or do i have to gunzip it by hand (or with a script) ?
>
> Thanks you 

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