From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 09:31:44 CST

Ioana,
  This sounds like you may have a corrupt DCD file, that's usually the
cause of the particular error, if I remember correctly. How large is
the file? What kind of machine are you reading it on? What version of
VMD are you using?

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:07:43PM -0800, ioana_at_pegasus.arc.nasa.gov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to load a trajectory and although I know it has more than 11
> frames, at frame 11 it stops with the message
> read_dcdstep returned -6
>
> what does this mean? How can I fix it? I've tried to read in frames larger
> than 11 (say 15 to 20) but it won't let me do it.
>
> A hint at where to look into this would help.
>
> Thanks,
> Ioana
>
>
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