Re: [ccp4bb] Topp fails: TOP: Open failed: File: /people/...../myfile.pdb

2008-09-17 Thread Ian Tickle
Sorry I should have copied this to the BB as it may be of general interest: -Original Message- From: Ian Tickle Sent: 17 September 2008 11:05 To: 'Jan Dohnalek' Subject: RE: [ccp4bb] Topp fails: TOP: Open failed: File: /people/./myfile.pdb OK try this one: looking at the

Re: [ccp4bb] Topp fails: TOP: Open failed: File: /people/...../myfile.pdb

2008-09-17 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi Jan We had this problem, I think it's because the character strings used to store pathnames are only 80 chars long, so if you have a long pathname (you didn't show your full pathname!) then it has a problem. You can either fix the program, or do as we did make a soft link in the current direct

[ccp4bb] Topp fails: TOP: Open failed: File: /people/...../myfile.pdb

2008-09-17 Thread Jan Dohnalek
Hi all, Using the 6.0.2 distribution of CCP4, the top program keeps failing because it just can't see the pdb files. The files can be accessed by the text viewer of CCP4. (the button VIEW) I have tried to put them in other directories to make the path string shorter, etc. None of those helped. I