Re: [Jmol-developers] 8.3

Sun, 01 May 2005 10:08:36 -0700

My point was that you can find plenty of software that purport to "read MOL, PDB, and XYZ" files, for instance. OK, but not THESE "XYZ" files. So if this other convention ever became popular, there would be considerable confusion as to what all sorts of programs can or cannot read. Like it or not, the three-character extension has been used as a short-hand notation for file type. It would be good to know what to really call the "standard" .xyz format, as distinct from this other .xyz format. Maybe "atom-only xyz format" or something like that.

But if .xyz files of this type are 15 years old, who am I to complain? It's just that for all these years with jmol I've never seen another .xyz format than the
standard one, and I'm a little sad to see it, as it is going to complicate discussions, if nothing else.

Bob


Miguel wrote:

Good, so it's not a format clash in Jmol, but merely an extension clash in
general... nothing we can do about... (whoever came up with the idea that
a
file must be 8.3 ???? :)



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