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From: Kara Di Giorgio (kdigiorgio_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 21:15:19 CST

I have been visualizing my trajectories from Amber calculations using
VMD on my Mac (load the .prmtop file and the .mdcrd files). I have
someone who is unfamiliar with VMD who would like to view the
animations of the runs. He can install VMD to view them, but he uses a
PC.

I originally thought of saving the state so that he wouldn't have to
load the .prmtop and .mdcrd files (and know what file types to choose).
  I opened the savestate file and found it uses absolute addresses. I
also noticed that the Mac uses UNIX addresses and I don't know how the
PC version writes the savestate file.

Is the savestate transferable between the different operating systems?
Is there a better way to save a trajectory animation to allow someone
to view it on a different machine/platform easily?

Thank you,

Kara Di Giorgio