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Hi Chris:

Sorry to do this, but I need to enlist the help of someone who knows how
ccp4i works (I don't ever use it, so I am in a bad position to help,
although I do want to incorporate the fix).

So I am cc-ing this to the CCP4bb with the hope that someone with one more
digit of IQ than I currently seem to possess can see the answer.

Bill



Chris Richardson wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2006, at 15:37, William Scott wrote:
>
>> Thanks to the 8 hour time difference, I am just waking up, and this
>> is my pre-coffee response
>
> That's dedication above and beyond the call of duty.
>
>> Is this directory string what you are using on OS X?  If so, you
>> might just need to replace /home with /Users/username
>>
>> Also, the & sign strikes me as weird, and because of the quotes,
>> that space between pdb and & is considered part of the filename.
>
> Ah, I probably should have mentioned that all network account home
> directories live in /home on our Macs.  This is a consequence of
> fitting them into an existing set of SGIs and Linux boxen with NFS-
> mounted home directories and NIS for user authentication.  Just in
> case this is the cause of the problem (and it's the cause of most of
> my problems) I tried it again with a local user.  The user was a
> local admin account, and everything was in its home directory (/Users/
> localadmin).  The same problem arose.
>
> I've checked the &, and it appears outside the quotes in the input to
> phaser, so that should have been
>
>      PDBFILE "/path/to/some.pdb" &
>
> I did a bit more fiddling.  Even if only the mtz path is in quotes it
> dies with the same error.     I moved to the directory with the mtz
> file and put just the filename instead of the full path.  Again, it
> died with quotes but not without.  Then I noticed that the error
> message includes the quotes around the filename.  For example
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> FATAL RUNTIME ERROR: Cannot open MTZ file: "hex_P321_scala1.mtz"
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I created a copy of the mtz file with quotes in its name using shell
> escapes.  Phaser ran without an error.  It seems to be interpreting
> the double quotes literally.
>
> Chris
> --
> Dr Chris Richardson - sysadmin, Structural Biology Section, icr.ac.uk
>

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