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From: L. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca (mef_at_ddt.biochem.umn.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 04:38:34 CST

HI Jacob,

First of all, I suggest you to do what you mentioned at the end (put
vmd in C:/vmd, for example). If you really can't do it, because you're
not the admin of the machine, then you can use the symbol "?" to
access those folders from ms-dos... For example:

c:\documents?and?settings

I hope it helps,
Michel

2006/2/14, Jacob Pøhlsgaard <jacobp_at_bmb.sdu.dk>:
> Hi guys
>
> Have anybody else tried using the psf tools (such as psfgen, solvate and ionize) under windows?
>
> Mine consistanly fail if any of the files are in directories containing spaces (such as "Program Files", "University of Illinois" or "My Documents"). It looks like the plugins just parse the path until they reach a whitespace, as they will typically output something like "File not found: C:\Program". I've also have "access denied" errors and such.
>
> A workaround is to copy all files involed (also the topology file) to a dir not containing spaces.
>
> Best regards
>
> Jacob Pøhlsgaard
> Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
> University of Southern Denmark
>
>