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From: ioana_at_pegasus.arc.nasa.gov
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 17:42:20 CST

John,

I figured it out that it was an error due to the transfer of the file from
one machine onto the mass storage. I do not know what
exactly the error was but I transfered the file again and this time it was
working.
Sorry for the spam.

Thank you,
Ioana

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:31:44 -0600
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: trajectory loading
> To: ioana_at_pegasus.arc.nasa.gov
> Cc: vmd <vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
>
>
>
> 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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