Rolf Huehne wrote:

>
>You are wrong. I tested some problematic cases with Jmol 11.3.33
>Revision 8438 (build from SVN) and they are still problematic: "SET", "2MO":
>
>  select [SET]17:A;
>  select [2MO]17:A;
>
>  
>
OK, that's fixed for 11.3.34. Anything in brackets will pass the 
compiler now, which is fine.

>I wanted to analyze this systematically using the command-line syntax
>check option. But it was quite useless. Each scriptfile contained a
>single command as in the examples above and Jmol was started using the
>following command-line:
>
>  java -jar Jmol.jar -n -c -s scriptfilename
>
>The output was not very informative. In most cases there was only the
>following message (1 or 2 times):
>
>--checking script:
>null
>----
>
>Sometimes there was additionally the following kind of message:
>
>select [118]17:A;
>--script check ok
>
>  
>
The messages were not going to Logger.Error; now they are.

>The "null" message was there for "2MO" but also for a lot of others that
>worked fine if invoked manually. So I can't provide you with a complete
>list of problematic cases.
>
>  
>
also fixed for 11.3.34

>In general the behaviour of Jmol in command-line mode is not very unix-like:
>
>1) Usually the output is send to "STDOUT" and the error or log messages
>are send to "STDERR". This allows for an easy separation of real output
>and other messages and simplifies output parsing.
>So I would expect that something like "syntax ok" or "syntax not ok"
>would be the output with the command-line switch "-c".
>
>  
>
Since you can set the log level to anything you want, we have log 
messages going to STDOUT. Should they really go to STDERR?


>2) The silent option unfortunately (and unexpectedly) makes Jmol totally
>silent. Usually such an option is used to suppress any commenting or
>warning messages but not the requested output.
>
>  
>
TOTALLY silent. Right.

>Regards, Rolf
>
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