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From: Brian Bennion (brian_at_youkai.llnl.gov)
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 11:53:55 CDT

Hi John and others,

I have a 3.1GB file generated by namd on a linux cluster Xeon cpus.
Catdcd reads through it and returns the proper number of frames.

catdcd -num file.dcd
gives 2500 frames

However, I tried to load it into vmd and it files before the first frame
with error -4.

Looking at the source code for readdcd.h -4 means a bad read
Diving deeper it seems it could fail with this error at a large number of
points during a dcd read so I don't know where the error is actually
caught.

Is catdcd more tolerant of larger/corupted files than the vmd plugins?

Brian

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