The solution (thanks to Jason) is to change all instances of:
HEADER

to:
REMARK

in the pdb file.  Then opening the file results in the correct behavior
(as before) of loading one object with 40 frames.

Regards,
Peter Stern

> Dear PyMol experts:
> 
> When using Open-Source PyMOL 0.99rc6 I read in a pdb file which has
> 40 coordinate sets (each is one frame in an animation) each beginning
> with:
> HEADER  Output iset=     n "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
> then a list of the pdb coordinates
> and ending with:
> ENDMDL
> "n" ranges from 0 to 39.
> This results in the following output:
> HEADER  Output iset=     0  "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
> HEADER  Output iset=     1  "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
>  ObjectMolReadPDBStr: read MODEL 1
>  ObjectMolReadPDBStr: read MODEL 2
> etc. ...
>  ObjectMolReadPDBStr: read MODEL 39
>  ObjectMolReadPDBStr: read MODEL 40
>  CmdLoad: "/home/psstern/pymol/xxxx_G=r_0_01.pdb" loaded as "xxxx_G=r_0_01".
> 
> This then displays one molecule with 40 frames and the animation can be
> activated by clicking on the red arrow.
> 
> However, when using Open-Source PyMOL 1.3 the same file results in
> different behavior.  Instead of reading in one object with 40 frames
> it reads in 40 different objects and displays all of them.  The output
> I get is:
> HEADER  Output iset=     0  "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
> HEADER  Output iset=     1  "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
> HEADER  Output iset=     2  "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
> etc. ...
> HEADER  Output iset=    38  "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
> HEADER  Output iset=    39  "xxxx_G=r_0_01"
>  CmdLoad: loaded 40 objects from "/home/psstern/pymol/xxxx_G=r_0_01.pdb".
> 
> Is this a bug or am I missing some parameter which is set differently
> by default for the two versions?  I couldn't find a solution in the
> on-line documentation.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Stern
> 
> 


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