Hi Felix Couldn't agree more, particularly when non-native anglophones have to contend with limiting themselves to ASCII characters in their filenames anyway (e.g. Spanish users have to carefully rename the OSX unnamed folder (carpeta sin tÃtulo) to something without an accent...)
On 3 Jun 2014, at 12:58, Felix Frolow wrote: > Possibility to have file names with the spaces is a curse put on the > community by Microsoft, and it will be a big mistake to introduce this to > CCP4 (my opinion). > I guess there are much more important things new CCP4 GUI should deal with. > If CCP4 GUI will start to go this way, > file names with spaces will become file names with spaces and multilingual, > in some these languages writing is going in the different direction. > In my introduction to UNIX, I teach in the beginning of practical protein > crystallography my first demand from student is to forget about spaces in the > fie names and the life will be much easier. > No fix is needed for that, concentrate on more important problems :-) > Dr Felix Frolow > Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular > Microbiology and Biotechnology > Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel > > Acta Crystallographica F, co-editor > > e-mail: mbfro...@post.tau.ac.il > Tel: ++972-3640-8723 > Fax: ++972-3640-9407 > Cellular: 0547 459 608 > > On Jun 3, 2014, at 14:47 , Eugene Krissinel <eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> I take this chance to to confirm once more, as publicly as possible, that >> file paths with spaces are discouraged in today's CCP4. This inconvenience >> originates from ancient times in computing when good half of CCP4 was >> written and when spaces were disallowed on file system nodes. >> >> Please take a notice of this fact as CCP4 core still receives (albeit >> infrequent) bug reports, where surprising behaviour is due to using file >> paths with white spaces. >> >> Fixing this has proved to be a hard problem, purely because of technical >> choices made quite a number of years ago. But good news are that this >> limitation will be removed in new CCP4 Gui under development. >> >> Eugene >> >> On 3 Jun 2014, at 08:23, Mark J van Raaij wrote: >> >>> This also occurred to me once where the file path had a space,(/Google >>> Drive/), when I moved the file somewhere else it worked. I was using >>> baverage from the CCP4i GUI. >>> >>> Mark J van Raaij >>> Lab 20B >>> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas >>> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC >>> c/Darwin 3 >>> E-28049 Madrid, Spain >>> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 >>> http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 09:20, Tim Gruene wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Bing, >>>> >>>> can you post the exact command you were using, please? Also please check >>>> with a different PDB file. In case you are using baverage from the >>>> command line, can you make sure you are actually using the program from >>>> ccp4 by typing 'which baverage' at the command prompt? >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> On 06/02/2014 10:16 PM, Wang, Bing wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi CCP4, >>>>> >>>>> Recently when I input my pdb file and run the baverage in the ccp4 suit >>>>> to check the temperature factor, it always tell me "No tables were fund >>>>> in this file." Could you tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there >>>>> another software instead of baverage I could use to check the temperature >>>>> factor? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> Bing >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr Tim Gruene >>>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie >>>> Tammannstr. 4 >>>> D-37077 Goettingen >>>> >>>> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Scanned by iCritical. >> > Harry -- ** note change of address ** Dr Harry Powell, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH Chairman of European Crystallographic Association SIG9 (Crystallographic Computing)
