> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- AstraZeneca UK Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales with registered number: 03674842 and a registered office at 2 Kingdom Street, London, W2 6BD. Confidentiality Notice: This message is private and may contain confidential, proprietary and legally privileged information. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system and note that you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Any unauthorised use or disclosure of the contents of this message is not permitted and may be unlawful. Disclaimer: Email messages may be subject to delays, interception, non-delivery and unauthorised alterations. Therefore, information expressed in this message is not given or endorsed by AstraZeneca UK Limited unless otherwise notified by an authorised representative independent of this message. No contractual relationship is created by this message by any person unless specifically indicated by agreement in writing other than email. Monitoring: AstraZeneca UK Limited may monitor email traffic data and content for the purposes of the prevention and detection of crime, ensuring the security of our computer systems and checking Compliance with our Code of Conduct and Policies. -----Original Message----- > From: Mailing list for users of COOT Crystallographic Software > [mailto:COOT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Tim Gruene > Sent: 07 November 2014 10:13 > To: COOT@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: [COOT] coot read-only switch > > Hello, > > does Coot have a 'read-only' command line option, i.e. so that it does > not modify anything in the current directory? I often just want to look > at a PDB-file and would prefer not to end up with coot-backup and all > the other files. >
While these are not exactly what you are after, these may be of some help: 1. the backup dir can be set to be any directory, e.g. /tmp/, so that it doesn't fill the working dir with its droppings, by setting the relevant environment variable: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/web/docs/coot.html#Environment-Variables 2. backups can be switched off completely: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/web/docs/coot.html#Backup-Functions > The options listed with 'coot --help' don't seem to list one of such > kind. > > Regards, > Tim > -- > Dr Tim Gruene > Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > Tammannstr. 4 > D-37077 Goettingen > > GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
