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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 29 2020 - 01:16:19 CDT

Can you send the VMD console error messages you see when
it tries (and fails) to run STRIDE on your machine?

VMD calls the tempnam() system call to generate legal
temporary files for input/output. Assuming those are
not wrong in some surprising way, this should hopefully
be a relatively simple thing to track down and fix with
additional quotation marks around filename strings sent
into the system() call that actually launches STRIDE.

Best,
  John

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 01:51:01PM -0400, mfeiglab_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Based on previous posts there is a reasonably well documented issue with
> VMD not able to
>
> run STRIDE on Windows 10 (probably older versions as well) when a file
> name/directory
>
> contains a space.
>
>
>
> In particular, the issue comes up when the Windows user name (and
> therefore the home
>
> directory) contains a space.
>
>
>
> There are ways to read input PDB files from locations where there is no
> space in the file name,
>
> but it seems impossible to get around the name of the Temp directory as it
> resides within
>
> the User home directory (C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\ ...).
>
>
>
> I tried to change the location of the temporary directory but so far no
> success. Perhaps the VMD
>
> variables are not effective and STRIDE gets the location from Windows
> instead.
>
>
>
> One obvious solution is to change the Windows user name (and user
> directory) but there seems to be
>
> a high chance of breaking other things, especially with other installed
> programs and I am not quite
>
> ready yet to go down this road.
>
>
>
> Any other ideas for how to get around this?
>
>
>
> The system is Windows 10, VMD 1.9.3.
>
> 

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