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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2010 - 12:04:45 CDT

On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 11:01 -0500, John Stone wrote:
> If someone can send me an example file that causes the problem
> on Windows, I can debug the code and see what is wrong.

in addition, i would suggest to check whether the file
was transferred from machine to machine in text mode
or in binary mode and in the latter case use utilities
like unix2dos (or dos2unix for the opposite case) to
see if the EOL handling is really the problematic issue.

cheers,
   axel.

> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 04:19:33PM +0100, Olaf Lenz wrote:
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> > Hi!
> >
> > On 03/24/2010 11:31 AM, Marek Maly wrote:
> > > I encountered a problem regarding visualisation of .VTF trajectory files
> > > (which are produced by Espresso simul. software)
> > > using VMD (v.1.8.7) under Windows XP (32 bit). Whenever I try to
> > > visualise given .VTF file on my Win Office machine
> > > I obtain immediate VMD crash refering to vtfplugin.so.
> >
> > > Did anybody encountered the same problem ? Is there any solution
> > > available ? Does anybody know about another free software which is
> > > possible to use under Windows (without any problems) for visualisation
> > > of .VTF files ?
> >
> > The only problem I know of occured in an older version and had to do
> > with the windows line endings. However, I though that I had fixed that
> > problem for VMD 1.8.7.
> > I have never used VMD on Windows, so I cannot say much more on that. I
> > thought that the vtfplugin-code is generic enough code to run also on
> > Windows.
> > If you are able to debug the code, I would be happy to hear of it, but
> > otherwise I cannot test anything as I have no development Windows
> > machine anywhere.
> >
> > Olaf
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com
http://sites.google.com/site/akohlmey/
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.