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From: Jorgen Simonsen (jorgen589_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 24 2009 - 17:50:49 CDT

Hi
Thanks for the help - it opens correctly now but when I save files it saves
them into /Users/jorgen/ instead of into the directory I have just opened.
How to resolve this problem.

Thanks in advance

With kind regards

Jorgen

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Ben Eisenbraun <bene_at_crystal.harvard.edu>wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 03:02:20PM -0500, Robert Brunner wrote:
> > On Aug 24, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Jorgen Simonsen wrote:
> >
> > >I have compiled VMD for mac OS 10.5.8 and I have added the following
> > >to my .bashrc
> > >alias vmd open -a vmd.app
> > >
> > >but it does not recognize an input pdb-file
> >
> > The OS X "open" command does not pass command-line parameters, so that
> > won't work for your purposes.
>
> Per the man page, the 'open -a' method should work. The examples section
> shows:
>
> "open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app '/Volumes/Macintosh HD/foo.txt'"
> opens the document in the application specified (in this case, TextEdit).
>
> The VMD.app bundle is built a bit oddly, which may be a culprit in this
> not working.
>
> -b
>
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