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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2003 - 15:16:48 CDT

Hi,
  Just FYI, the braces are useful when you have filenames or pathnames
that contain spaces, they shouldn't hurt anything...

  John

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:58:28AM -0700, Ioana Cozmuta wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I did load a pdb and a parmtop file before loading the dcd (forgot to
> mention that) however when I loaded the dcd file I stil did get that
> number 0 of loaded frames. I will try without the {} curled braces
> but...it's weird because I used the logfile /dev/tty/ command to see what
> vmd is using to load the dcd and that contained the braces...
>
> Thanks,
> Ioana
>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Brian Bennion wrote:
>
> > Hi Ioana
> >
> > You need to first load a molecule to add files to...
> >
> > mol load pdb some.pdb
> > or
> > mol load psf som.psf
> >
> > then the
> >
> > mol addfile file.trj type dcd first 0 last 100 skip 10
> >
> > Notice no braces..
> >
> > Hope that helps
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Ioana Cozmuta wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to use the text mode of vmd and trying to load a trajectory
> > > file with the command:
> > >
> > > mol addfile {file.trj} type {dcd} first 0 last 100 stride 10
> > >
> > > but the prompter only returns 0 and nothing is loaded, what is it that I
> > > am doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Ioana
> > >
> >
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