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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2010 - 17:00:15 CDT

Hi,
  If you're just loading PDB files from the main RCSB site, all
you have to do is to specify the four character accession code
and VMD will automaticallly load them, e.g.:
  mol new 1enh

If you need to load an arbitrary file type from an arbitrary URL,
there are also ways to do that, but unless you need that flexibility,
the method I show above is the best way to go for getting PDB structures,
it supercedes the old "mol urlload" mechanism.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 09:30:09AM -0700, Andrew M. Simms wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been trying to get the urlload command to work from Windows:
>
> vmd > mol urlload pdb http://www.pdb.org/pdb/download/downloadFile.dofileFormat=pdb&compression=NO&structureId=1ENH
>
> but I get:
>
> couldn't open "C:UsersmsimmsAppDataLocalTemp???urlload": no such file or directoryvmd_mol_urllload failed.
>
> Is there another way to get vmd to load PDB files from a URL?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Andrew
> 

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