(CCing openbabel-devel because this is mostly an OB issue I think)

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:53:17PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> Of course, it's possible, but reading of log will be much easier.
> Coordinates in log are in the same format as in out after frequencies
> run. It will be enough to permit reading of log by OB, and coordinates
> on all point will be readable. Also, I see there are many programs
> writing to more than one file. In future, it would be useful to read
> PUNCH (*.dat) from Gamess US to read hessian matrix and MO vectors

Right, it is a general problem.  If you use a GUI, then it is relatively
easy to ask the user to indicate all files which belong to the
calculation; but if you just do it non-interactively in OpenBabel then
just looking e.g. at a .log file of the same name in the same directory
might be error-prone if it belongs to a different calculation.  For
MOLPRO, this might be the case if you did a geometry calculation before
and now do a single-point calculation at a different geometry using the
same input filename - the .log will still belong to the old calculation.


Michael

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