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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 09:58:49 CDT

Hi,
  That's a message from the DCD reader plugin indicating that your
trajectory file is either truncated or corrupt in some way. Did you
run this on a file that had been copied while a simulation job was
still in the process of running?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:53:18PM +0200, Leyla Celik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been writing a couple of tcl-scripts to do my analyzing calling Justin
> Gullingsrud's bigdcd script from the vmd script library.
>
> I have 19 dcd files with a total of 38000 frames. The script proceeds fine until
> frame nr. 37315 after which it gives a failure:
>
> read_dcdstep returned -4
>
> I cannot find this message anywhere in the bigdcd script (and I have not written
> something like that in my own script). Anyone have a suggestion of what to do?
>
> Thanks
> Leyla
>
> --
> Leyla Celik
> Ph.d. student
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Aarhus
> Langelandsgade 140
> DK-8000 Aarhus C
> Denmark
> Tel: +45 8942 3869
> e-mail: lc_at_chem.au.dk 

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