From chemistry-request*- at -*ccl.net Wed Jun 11 03:29:59 2003 Received: from oc30.uni-paderborn.de (oc30.uni-paderborn.de [131.234.240.90]) by server.ccl.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5B7Twkr031196 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 03:29:59 -0400 Received: (from ib[ AT ]localhost) by oc30.uni-paderborn.de (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA14068; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:23:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:23:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200306110823.KAA14068-.at.-oc30.uni-paderborn.de> X-Authentication-Warning: oc30.uni-paderborn.de: ib set sender to ib-.at.-oc30.uni-paderborn.de using -f From: Ingo Brunberg To: weiz-.at.-mail.rochester.edu CC: johns-.at.-ks.uiuc.edu, chemistry-.at.-ccl.net In-reply-to: <3ee685de.5133.27812-.at.-mail.rochester.edu> (weiz-.at.-mail.rochester.edu) Subject: Re: CCL:vmd under windows References: <3ee685de.5133.27812-.at.-mail.rochester.edu> Looks like VMD has problems with spaces in the path. I guess your VMD installation is rooted somewhere under C:\Program Files\. Try to install it in a location that has no whitespace in its path. Regards, Ingo Brunberg > Dear Sir: > > I want to use vmd to make some pictures for my paper, but I only have > linux and windows system.when I used vmd under linux and render the > picture into ps format, it lost most of the fanzy effect, the picture > looks ugly. when I switch to windows machine and render the picture to > "snapshot", it looks very good. however, some other problems come, I > actually have a trajectory saved in xyz format, in linux, vmd can read all > of them and show the movie, but under windows it can not even read one > snapshot, the error message is > *********************** > Invalid switch - "tmp". > 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable > program or batch file. > ERROR> Could not read file ...... > ************************ > > can you give me some hint about this? > > Wei