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From: maria goranovic (mariagoranovic_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 09:19:24 CST

Thank you for the tips, Axel.

I load a pdb file in VMD, and then I try to run play myscript where myscript
is essentially a set of vmd commands, which also reads in a specific
trajectory file called file.dcd. What I want to do is replace file.dcd by a
variable like $file.

>From the vmd console on the GUI, this does not work:

play myscript -args file.dcd

Usually something like this works for a vmd script, but running from the
unix console
*
*vmd -dispdev text -args file.dcd

I hope that clarifies the question?

-Maria

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu
> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, mariagoranovic_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> MG> Hi,
> MG>
> MG> Is it possible to pass arguments to the play or source command if one
> is
> MG> running a script from the vmd console ? -args does not work
>
> yes, it is possible, and -args works just fine, only that it may
> not work the way you use it. but since you don't describe what
> you did and how it failed, there is little possibility to help you.
>
> since it hasn't been posted on this list in a while, it might help
> people in general to first have a look at this document before posting
> questions.
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
>
> the general rule is: the better the question, the better the answer.
>
> cheers,
> axel.
>
> MG>
>
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-- 
Maria G.
Technical University of Denmark
Copenhagen