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From: balas002_at_bama.ua.edu
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 14:40:14 CDT

Dear John,

           I tried running it from the command line but this time it
comes up with an error saying invalid command name. Also my working
directory name does not contain spaces. The only thing is that vmd
itself is installed in a different directory than videomach.....and
the version of videomach I have is the newest one but I did rename the
videomach directory to videomach-2.7.2.

Jay.

>
> Dear Jay,
> What happens if you open a command shell and try running it by
> hand
> like this (the quotes are necessary since the filename contains
> spaces):
> "c:\program files\vmd-2.7.2\vmach.exe"
>
> If you can't run it by hand, then VMD can't run it either.
>
> Another possibility is that you're trying to save the results
> into a directory or filename that contains spaces. The previous
> revs of the vmdmovie plugin didn't have a solution for a strange
> problem VideoMach has when executed the normal way, in the new
> version we've just made a change that'll make this work.
> In the mean time, make sure that the "working directory"
> setting in the vmdmovie plugin corresponds to a directory name
> that doesn't contain spaces. This is only a problem on Windows,
> the Unix versions of vmdmovie work fine with filenames containing
> spaces, this is a specific change we've made to please VideoMach on
> Windows.
>
> Let us know if you need more help getting this working.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:15:27PM -0500, balas002_at_bama.ua.edu
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to use the movie maker plugin but it comes up with
> an
> > error message saying cannot execute c:\program files\vmd-2.7.2
> > \vmach.exe . I have videomach and it is installed in the
> > aforementioned path.
> >
> > Jay.
>
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