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From: balas002_at_bama.ua.edu
Date: Tue Jun 29 2004 - 10:37:40 CDT

 Hi John,
        when I type this satement in the command line :
        
         "c:\program files\videomach-2.7.2\vmach.exe"
      
        The error message says 'invalid command'.

        Videomach is installed in the directory :
         
           c:\program files\videomach-2.7.2\vmach.exe

       When I try to run the movie maker itself the error message says
        "could not find c:\program files\videomach-2.7.2\vmach.exe
          no such file or directory".

Jay.

> Jay,
> It would be helpful if you told us precisely what you typed, and
> what error messages you got. It is the details that are the trouble
> in this particular case, so if you can show is precisely what you
> are
> doing that will help much more than general statements at this
> point.
> If necessary, do a few directory listings and attach them to the
> email
> so we can see what the organization of your filesystem is. You
> didn't
> say what drive you installed VideoMach onto, but I'm assuming it is
> installed in:
> c:\program files\videomach-2.7.2\vmach.exe
>
> Is this correct? If you run it by hand by quoting the entire
> command
> line, I would expect it to run. Like this:
> "c:\program files\videomach-2.7.2\vmach.exe"
>
> If it doesn't run, and issues some error box, or something like
> that,
> we need to know exactly what the error is, as it could be that
> VideoMach
> doesn't like having its installation directory renamed, which may
> explain
> why it still isn't working for you.
>
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:40:14PM -0500, balas002_at_bama.ua.edu
> wrote:
> > Dear John,
> >
> > I tried running it from the command line but this time
> it
> > comes up with an error saying invalid command name. Also my working
>
> > directory name does not contain spaces. The only thing is that vmd
>
> > itself is installed in a different directory than videomach.....and
>
> > the version of videomach I have is the newest one but I did rename
> the
> > videomach directory to videomach-2.7.2.
> >
> > Jay.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Dear Jay,
> > > What happens if you open a command shell and try running it by
> > > hand
> > > like this (the quotes are necessary since the filename contains
> > > spaces):
> > > "c:\program files\vmd-2.7.2\vmach.exe"
> > >
> > > If you can't run it by hand, then VMD can't run it either.
> > >
> > > Another possibility is that you're trying to save the results
> > > into a directory or filename that contains spaces. The previous
> > > revs of the vmdmovie plugin didn't have a solution for a strange
> > > problem VideoMach has when executed the normal way, in the new
> > > version we've just made a change that'll make this work.
> > > In the mean time, make sure that the "working directory"
> > > setting in the vmdmovie plugin corresponds to a directory name
> > > that doesn't contain spaces. This is only a problem on Windows,
> > > the Unix versions of vmdmovie work fine with filenames
> containing
> > > spaces, this is a specific change we've made to please VideoMach
> on
> > > Windows.
> > >
> > > Let us know if you need more help getting this working.
> > >
> > > John Stone
> > > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:15:27PM -0500, balas002_at_bama.ua.edu
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am trying to use the movie maker plugin but it comes up
> with
> > > an
> > > > error message saying cannot execute c:\program files\vmd-2.7.2
> > > > \vmach.exe . I have videomach and it is installed in the
> > > > aforementioned path.
> > > >
> > > > Jay.
> > >
> > > --
> > > NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> > > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> > > Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
>
> > >
> > > WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
>
> --
> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
>
> WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
> 

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