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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 13:42:54 CST

Dear Rui,
  Did you get any warnings or errors when VMD started up?
What user are you logged in as when you run VMD? Were you logged in
as administrator when you installed VMD on this machine? If you
can provide me with these and perhaps a few more bits of information I
can probably figure out what is wrong with your VMD installation.
No need to CC all of VMD-L as we debug, just email me your info
and we'll go from there. If the problem is anything interesting I'll
summarize for others' benefit when its cured.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:47:03PM -0000, J. Rui Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having problems with VMD1.8 for Windows (Windows2000).
> When I select Cartoon representation, I get the following message:
>
> ERROR) Unable to find Stride output file: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\8
> ERROR) Stride::read_stride_record: unable to read output file from Stride
> ERROR) Call to Stride program failed.
>
> There is no such file in the directory, but there is a file named "7", which
> is a pdb...
> I also could not use surface representation:
>
> ERROR) Cannot read SURF output file: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1
> \LOCALS~\Temp\vmdsurf.u0.41.in.tri
> Info) Done.
>
> .. and neither render the molecule with Tachyon:
>
> Info) Rendering current scene to 'plot.dat' ...
> Info) Tachyon file generation finished
> Info) Executing post-render cmd '"C:\Program Files\University of
> Illinois\VMD\tachyon_WIN32.exe" -aasamples 2 -mediumshade plot.dat -format
> BMP -o plot.dat.bmp'...
> Info) Rendering complete.
>
> VMD writes the plot.dat file, but there is no plot.dat.bmp.
> How can I fix this?
> Thanks,
> Rui Rodrigues
> 

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