From: Bogdan Costescu (Bogdan.Costescu_at_IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 09:57:14 CDT

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Mgr. Lubos Vrbka wrote:

> regarding the space saving: huge amount of space can be saved by
> using e.g. text amber trajectory. in both binary and text format 1
> coordinate occupies 8 bytes (8.3 format in text).

But what about precision ? I have already mentioned the precision loss
that occurs when CHARMM transforms the binary trajectory in a text
one. Sure, for visualisation only, such precision is not so important,
but lately VMD started to also be used as analysis tool.

> other possibility - add "compressed" button to file selector window,
> so the user can explicitly say - this is compressed...

The code still has to be written. I'm sure that John would not mind a
patch from you :-)

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Bogdan Costescu
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