From: Chris Harrison (charris5_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 09 2009 - 15:49:42 CDT

Two ideas:
1) did you actually type: "$ubq writepdb ubq.pdb" and not just "writepdb
ubq.pdb"?

2) after doing your atomselection, try "$ubq num". This should return the #
of atoms of the $ubq selection. If not, there's a problem in the
atomselection command .....

Chris

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Corey Fugate <fugate_at_hawaii.edu> wrote:
>        Page 9 of the Unix/Mac NAMD tutorial step 4.  I have 1UBQ.pdb open
> in vmd, I open the Tk console and type (while in the 1-1-build dir) -
> set ubq [atomselect top protein]  (press enter)
>
> atomselect0 is printed to the screen.  After using writepdb ubqp.pdb the
> pdb file is written, n=but is completely empty.
>
>                Am I missing something?
>
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