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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_vitae.cmm.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 17 2006 - 06:32:23 CST

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, James Rustad wrote:

hi jim,

JR> Info) Waters: 0
JR> Info) Segments: 1
JR> Info) Fragments: 12 Protein: 0 Nucleic: 0
JR> ERROR) Could not read file 0244.xyz
JR>
JR> but if I then type
JR>
JR> vmd > for {set i 244} {$i < 2501} {incr i} {mol new [format "%
JR> 04d.xyz" $i] }:

please try inserting a 'waitfor all' into the 'mol new' part.
this will make sure, that you open only one file at a time.
the number of allowed file descriptors per process is usually
higher that a few hundred, but there may be another limit somewhere.

...

axel. 

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