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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 15:37:49 CST

Dear all,
  I've found a bug that manifests itself on some versions of Windows which
causes trouble with Stride, which I have just fixed. This does not explain
the other problems Rui reported, but for those of you experiencing any
trouble with Stride on Win2K or XP, please let me know and I can provide
you with a VMD 1.8.1 test binary to try on your machine.

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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