AMBER Archive (2003)

Subject: Re: Please help on xleap: FATAL ERROR

From: Margaret Shun Cheung (mscheung_at_Glue.umd.edu)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 09:06:10 CDT

On Thu, 22 May 2003, David A. Case wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2003, Margaret Shun Cheung wrote:
> >
> > > parmfoo = loadamberparams foo.dat
> > > edit parmfoo
> >
> >
> > XATRegisterShell: There are problems with WidgetCreatedTable
> > !FATAL ERROR----------------------------------------
> > !FATAL: In file [sysdepend.c], line 104
> > !FATAL: Message: Illegal print string callback!!
> > !ABORTING.
> > Abort (core dumped)
>
> It looks like there are problems with "editing" a parmaeter file inside
> xleap. I'm not too surprised, since I doubt that any of the developers
> have ever tried to do this in the last decade or so. I know that I have
> always just used a text editor on the parm*.dat file itself whenever changes
> were needed (and/or used a text editor to create a frcmod file).
>
> We *will* look into this, but I'm guessing that for now (in addition to
> the addAtomTypes suggestion) you will need to find other ways to edit
> your parameter files.
>
> Thanks for the problem report.
>
> ..regards....dac
>
> --
>
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>
>

Dear Dr. Case,
Thank you for your reply. I tried to edit the parmfoo.dat by vi and loaded
it up again using "edit" in xleap. However, the same complains and core
dump took place. Thanks again.

Sincerely,

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