From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2014 - 16:43:14 CST

If you wanted to, you could hack the PDB reader plugin to
do this for you, and replace the standard one with yours.
That would be pretty straightforward I think.

Cheers,
  John

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:33:18PM +0000, Bennion, Brian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have approximately 300K pdb files that are compressed with xz. I have a
> wrapper for my "less" that decompresses on the fly. Is there something
> similar that anyone else has done with vmd?
>
> Brian

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