Hmmm On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 22:53, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It worked perfectly, no-one even noticed the bytes being swapped :) > > I. > > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 22:37, Eleanor Dodson < > 0000176a9d5ebad7-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > >> No no please no!!! How I hated the byte swap.. most people used VAXy >> things - York didn’t - our bytes were not your bytes .... stuff of >> nightmares... >> >> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 22:25, Jonathan Cooper < >> 00000c2488af9525-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> Ian, I can, as a not very scientific footnote, confirm that Jim Austin >>> still has your Convex on his farm and, it seems, most of the manuals: >>> >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0087.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0086.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0078.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0077.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0089.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0084.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0103.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0110.jpg >>> >>> He also has at least one of the ex-bbk Evans & Sutherland PS300's: >>> >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0091.jpg >>> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0093.jpg >>> >>> A few cobwebs, but pretty good going really for a 'former' pig-shed!! >>> Not sure what happened to the 11/750, though... School of Pharmacy rings a >>> bell?? >>> >>> None of this matters, but I just thought you might like to practice some >>> 'big-iron' byte-swapping again, and if so, York is the place to go, after >>> covid-19, of course ;-0 ;-0 >>> On Friday, 15 May 2020, 10:47:40 BST, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi, that would have to be a very old map! I remember implementing the >>> auto-byte swap for VMS (necessary as we had both a Convex C220 running Unix >>> and a VAX 11/750)! >>> >>> In fact the Convex was rescued from scrap by Jim Austin and is still >>> working: http://www.corestore.org/convex.htm >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> -- Ian >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> -- Ian >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:24, Philippe BENAS < >>> 00000d88e888355a-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Bernhard, >>> >>> Is it an old map ? >>> >>> Back to the old VAX times I had to dump CCP4 maps to ascii map files, >>> then swap bytes from VAX-DOS to Unix before converting them again to a CCP4 >>> map format (I think I was using mapman from USF) on a Unix workstation and >>> be able to read them in Frodo-Strasbourg or O. >>> >>> At least you could give it a shot and the ascii map file would help you >>> figuring out the issue by a visual inspection of the header and sections. >>> >>> All the best, >>> Philippe >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> Philippe BENAS, Ph.D. >>> >>> ARN UPR 9002 CNRS >>> IBMC Strasbourg >>> 2, Allée Konrad Röntgen >>> F-67084 STRASBOURG cedex >>> +33.3.8841.7109 >>> E-mails: p.be...@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr, philippe_be...@yahoo.fr >>> URLs: http://www-ibmc.u-strasbg.fr/ , >>> http://www-ibmc.u-strasbg.fr/spip-arn/ >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> >>> Le jeudi 14 mai 2020 à 22:45:09 UTC+2, Bernhard Rupp < >>> hofkristall...@gmail.com> a écrit : >>> >>> >>> Hi Fellows, >>> >>> >>> >>> I am failing on conversion of a ccp4 map to mtz using Sfall >>> >>> >>> >>> I provide as a scale reference a mtz with FP SIGFP and R free >>> >>> >>> >>> All cell constants and SG 20 and map headers seem to agree. >>> >>> >>> >>> But I receive following warning: >>> >>> >>> >>> *** WARNING - your map spacegroup is different to the program default >>> one *** >>> >>> >>> >>> and later >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>>> CCP4 library signal library_file:Cannot open file (Warning) >>> >>> raised in tmpfile() failed, opening normal file instead. <<<<<< >>> >>> INPUT X USED AS X >>> >>> INPUT Y USED AS Z >>> >>> INPUT Z USED AS Y >>> >>> >>> >>> Which then leads to the imho - given above- justified complaint: >>> >>> >>> >>> Check map header agrees with fixed requirements for SFcalc for this >>> spacegroup. >>> >>> Check Nxyz 180 200 120 180 200 120 >>> >>> >>> >>> Check map header agrees with fixed requirements for SFcalc for this >>> spacegroup. >>> >>> Check Iuvw 3 2 1 3 1 2 >>> >>> <B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> >>> >>> SFALL: **** Fatal disagreement between input info and map header >>> >>> >>> >>> How do I fix this ? >>> >>> >>> >>> In principle all the information is there to do the job… >>> >>> >>> >>> Many thx, BR >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Bernhard Rupp >>> >>> Crystallographiae Vindicis Militum Ordo >>> >>> http://www.hofkristallamt.org/ >>> >>> b...@hofkristallamt.org >>> >>> +1 925 209 7429 >>> >>> +43 676 571 0536 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Many plausible ideas vanish >>> >>> at the presence of thought >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >>> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
