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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 09 2005 - 09:50:32 CST

Hi Jerome,
  This is mostly historic, some of the oldest VMD commands have no built-in
help or much in the way of error checking. Looks like you've found another
one that needs updating. I'll add it to the todo list.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:04:52PM +0100, Jérôme Hénin wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I have just noticed that "animate", when called with an invalid syntax, does
> not print any warning or error message. Is this intentional? I had written
> "animate frame 0" instead of "animate goto 0", and the script stopped there
> without any explanations, making it a bit hard to debug.
> Actually, both "animate foo" and "animate foo bar foo" do produce an error,
> but not "animate foo bar".
>
> Jerome
>
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> Jérôme Hénin
> Equipe de Dynamique des Assemblages Membranaires
> Université Henri Poincaré / CNRS
> Tel : (33) 3 83 68 43 91 Fax : (33) 3 83 68 43 87
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