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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 09:16:53 CDT

Justyna,
  I looked at your XYZ file and it appears to be a badly formatted file.
The header purports to contain 24 atoms, but the lines folllowing the first
frame don't contain any header information etc. What program generated
this file? The XYZ reader plugin for VMD reads files that follow the
format described on this page:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/molfile/xyzplugin.html

Your file lacks the atom count and molecule name lines on all
of the subsequent frames after the first one, which is why you're
getting garbled structures for all of those frames.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:54:17PM -0400, Justyna Jaroniec wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with loading xyz file (with multiple time step) to VMD1.8.2
> (windows version). I can load the same file to linux VMD1.8 version and it
> works fine. Is there a diffrent xyz format for windows version than for linux?
> Thank you,
> Justyna
> 

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