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From: Marc Q. Ma (qma_at_oak.njit.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 09:19:14 CDT

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