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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 17 2006 - 16:28:17 CST

Jindal,
  If the file is very large, this may be a file size related problem.
The new beta version of VMD 1.8.4 now has support for reading DCD files
larger than 2GB on Windows machines:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/

You'll want to give that a try if this is a big DCD file (>= 2GB).
The beta version also has much more descriptive debugging info when
errors occur while loading a DCD, so that may be useful as well.

  John

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:44:30PM -0500, Jindal Shah wrote:
> Thanks Johns
>
> The version I am using is 1.8.3. I did transfer this dcd file from a linux
> machine. I have been able to load such dcd files before.
>
> Jindal
>
> On 3/16/06, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > This indicates that the DCD plugin has encountered a corruption
> > or other unexpected sequence of bytes in the DCD file you're loading.
> > What version of VMD are you running, and where did the DCD file
> > come from? If you transferred the DCD file from another machine,
> > you'll need to verify that it didn't get corrupted somehow in the
> > process...
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:18:24PM -0500, Jindal Shah wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > While loading a dcd file on a Widows machine, I ran into this error
> > > read_dcdstep returned -6.
> > >
> > > Does one any have any idea about the error.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jindal
> >
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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078