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From: Neelanjana Sengupta (senguptan_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 21:15:38 CST

Hi VMD users,

When loading one of my system trajectories into VMD (a dcd file), I get the
foll. unusual warning:

dcdplugin) Warning: DCD header claims 4000 frames, file size indicates there
are actually 5999 frames

This is odd, as I KNOW for sure that my trajectory has 4000 frames. Can
anybody throw light on this message? (I find it counterintuitive that VMD
should make some estimate of the frame number based on the filesize. It
seems too arbitrary, doesn't it? A lot depends on your type of system...)

Thanks! 

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Neelanjana Sengupta, PhD student
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
USA
Phone: 1-949-824 9921
email: sengupta_at_uci.edu
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