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From: Erik (ewin.md_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2012 - 21:28:30 CST

Hi John,

I was using Xenoview in windows to generate this. It sometimes
generate. car file that can be read but also sometimes cant.
However, my problem solved by writting .xyz file from xenoview rather
a .car file.
I am curious, what is the .car data format ?

Thanks,
Erik

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:41 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> It appears that your .car file contains carriage returns
> rather than linefeed characters. The VMD plugin for reading
> .car files is expecting line feed characters (per InsightII Unix
> file conventions). What operating system are you using?
> There may be other problems, but just looking at the file in
> 'vi' this is a bit of a red flag already...
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:25:30PM -0600, Erik wrote:
>> sorry for putting wrong subject,
>>
>> > Dear VMD users,
>> >
>> > I have .car file that i created with xenoview but cant open in vmd.
>> > is there specific format for .car that might be different between the
>> > 2 software ?
>> >
>> > Need Help and Thanks a Lot,
>> > Erik
>
>
>
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