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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 13 2004 - 16:05:56 CDT

Ara,
  Ideally what would help would be a full file format specification,
but I do have a couple of .car files sent to me by Lubos. Normally
we want to have a full file format spec to work from when writing plugins,
otherwise we end up continually update a plugin when users discover new
files that don't work with plugins that were written by reverse-engineering
or anecdotal information on poorly documented file formats. If you've got
some info though, anything is better than what I've got now which is
zilch. :)

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:04:55PM -0600, Kooser, Ara S wrote:
> John,
>
> Did you need a .car file and a .mdf? And do you need to know what
> information is in each column? I have a small boehmite system in .car/.msf
> file. I can type up a brief note on what each column is.
>
> Ara
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stone [mailto:johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 1:23 PM
> To: Lubos Vrbka
> Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: file type specification question
>
>
>
> Lubos,
> Thanks for the example files. I was unable to find .car docs as I got
> lost in the mire of the MSI web site just as you did.
> If anyone else happens to have specs for that file format,
> let us know and we'll see if we can write a plugin for it.
> Even example source code might be helpful if you know of other tools that
> read it.
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 04:35:19PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > >Do you have a URL for any file format specifications for those?
> > >That'd be helpful, we can see how tricky it'd be to write them.
> > i was trying to find something about .car, but i din't find any
> > information - it should be somewhere on msi page (redirected to accelrys
> > and i cannot find the format there)... i attach 2 .car files to this
> > e-mail, it could help you... anyone knows about better source for this
> > format?
> >
> > msi format (quite complicated on the first sight:)):
> > http://www.chem.cmu.edu/courses/09-560/docs/msi/modenv/D_Files.html#94
> > 8951
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > --
> > Lubos
> > _@_"
>
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