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From: Leonardo G. Trabuco (ltrabuco_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 07:50:50 CDT

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:58:09PM +0200, M. Emal Alekozai wrote:
> I want to load a dcd file and skip every 50 frame.
> In the VMD Gui it works fine. But if I save the vmd input file the "skip"
> command isn't saved.
>
> I afterwords tried to edit the vmd input file be hand and added the "skip"
> option to the "mol addfile" command (same as proposed in [1]).
> 1: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/1848.html
>
> The edited command in the inpute file looks like this:
> "mol addfile dcdFile_prod13.dcd type dcd skip 1000 waitfor all"
>
> But this doesn't seems to work. VMD still loads the entire dcd file.
> Where is the mistake?

Use 'step' instead of 'skip'.

Leo 

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Leonardo Giantini Trabuco
Ph.D. student
Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign