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From: Mgr. Lubos Vrbka (lubos.vrbka_at_uochb.cas.cz)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 10:48:02 CDT

hi,

> yes. you can do it even without any modification to VMD.
> ... at least with some platforms. check out http://zlibc.linux.lu/
> just install it and do:
> env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/uncompress.o vmd
thanks, this looks cool, i'll definitely give it a try.

should i also try do modify the file reading plugins for vmd? the
modification is pretty straightforward - adding
#include <zlib.h>
then careful replacement of all file i/o functions with their gz-enabled
modifications (i.e. fopen -> gzopen, fseek -> gzseek, fgets -> gzgets,
read -> gzread, ...) and also changing the names of return value
constants...
i think i could test it with e.g. pdb plugin and then we would see...

regards,
lubos 

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Mgr. Lubos Vrbka
Center for Biomolecules and Complex Molecular Systems
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
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