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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 10:25:47 CDT

Vivek,
  It sounds like your grid/srf files may not be compatible with our
readers for those formats. Can you send me a copy of the two files that
fail to load so I can take a look at them?

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:52:45AM +0300, vivek sharma wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> Situation is:
>
> I am loading a pdb in VMD (using 1.8.3 both Win and Linux), it goes fine.
> Now, I would like to load the *.grd (binary potential map file from
> Insight/Delphi calc.) and I am doing it by selecting the molecule in VMD
> Main (already loaded pdb) and using 'Load Data into Molecule'. BUt, it
> doesnot go fine and error in console is:
>
> Improperly formatted file header: uplbl
> ERROR) Unable to open file with plugin of type grd
>
> Actually, I searched the mailing list with this and found few emails, but
> couldn't understand how to get it done. Any help will be great.
>
> Secondly, I also have a *.srf (GRASP surface file generated by
> Insight/Delphi calculation), when I load it in VMD by selecting file
> type 'grasp' from Molecule file browser, VMD does something for sometime
> but dies with a core dump.
>
> Am I doing the stuff right or is there anything wrong? ANy suggestions
> will be great.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> br,
>
> Vivek
>
>
> --
> VIVEK SHARMA
> HBG BI
> "Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot." (?) 

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