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From: Peter Freddolino (petefred_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 09:35:43 CDT

Dear Marc,
I believe he did; 'skip 1000', which the example command line used, will
not have any effect here, but 'step 1000' will have the desired effect.
Peter

Marc Q. Ma wrote:

> Dear Leo,
>
> How to make VMD save the sates automatically and allowing stepping (
> skipping) certain number of frames? You did not answer this question.
>
> Marc
> On May 15, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Leonardo G. Trabuco wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:58:09PM +0200, M. Emal Alekozai wrote:
>>
>>> I want to load a dcd file and skip every 50 frame.
>>> In the VMD Gui it works fine. But if I save the vmd input file the
>>> "skip"
>>> command isn't saved.
>>>
>>> I afterwords tried to edit the vmd input file be hand and added
>>> the "skip"
>>> option to the "mol addfile" command (same as proposed in [1]).
>>> 1: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/1848.html
>>>
>>> The edited command in the inpute file looks like this:
>>> "mol addfile dcdFile_prod13.dcd type dcd skip 1000 waitfor all"
>>>
>>> But this doesn't seems to work. VMD still loads the entire dcd file.
>>> Where is the mistake?
>>
>>
>> Use 'step' instead of 'skip'.
>>
>> Leo
>>
>> --
>> Leonardo Giantini Trabuco
>> Ph.D. student
>> Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>