Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Zhijie Li
Hi all, On linux there are a few good GUI HEX editors. Here I’d like to recommend BLESS, which conveniently displays all possible numerical interpretations of the four bytes under cursor. It also allows the user to switch between big endian or little endian through a checkbox. Unfortunately

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread James Holton
As a beamline scientist I must say I am glad that diffraction image data is not usually stored as ASCII text.  In fact, I am slowly warming to the idea of storing it as not just binary, but compressed formats.  Problem, I'm sure will be that it won't be long before we forget how to decompress

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread graeme.win...@diamond.ac.uk
Dear Pavol, Reading text files without any software is a neat trick, if you can do it. (no file on a computer is “human readable” - but many are encoded in a form which allows a wide range of general tools to display it, not just specialist crystallography software) ;-) I have to say, I am

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Susan Lea
bring back the lcf format reflection file ;-) Prof. Susan M. Lea, FMedSci tel: +44 1865 275181 -- Director of the Central Oxford Structural Microscopy and Imaging Centre & Professor of

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Ian Tickle
PS if you're interested in software archaeology and you have the CCP4 library source code handy, check out these routines that I wrote for VAX/VMS. Yes, we kept it in the source distribution all these years! ccp4-7.0-src/checkout/libccp4/fortran/vmsdiskio.for Subroutines QFIEEE & QTIEEE

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Ian Tickle
All MTZ (and map) files from the very beginning had an architecture-dependent 'machine-stamp' in the header which *should* cause the read routines to do the necessary conversions if needed (i.e. where the writing & reading machine formats differ). This was absolutely necessary in the days when we

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Friday, November 9, 2018 9:12:36 AM PST Robert Esnouf wrote: > > Without checking further, there is a "dd" option for swapping big-endian to > little-endian... swab. This may simply be the issue... DEC computers used a different floating point format. Swapping endian-ness would be

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Robert Esnouf
Without checking further, there is a "dd" option for swapping big-endian to little-endian... swab. This may simply be the issue...  The output of od -x may help decode the header of the file... Regards, Robert -- Dr Robert Esnouf University Research Lecturer, Director of Research

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Pavel Afonine
Now I see the value of storing data in plain text files even more (mind Shelx or X-plor formats, for example) -;) On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 9:47 PM Clemens Vonrhein wrote: > Hi Eleanor, > > You could try running the oldest MTZ2VARIOUS binary you can find - > e.g. > > wget

Re: [ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Hi Eleanor, You could try running the oldest MTZ2VARIOUS binary you can find - e.g. wget ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/4.2/binaries/ccp4-4.2_Linux.tar.gz tar -xvf ccp4-4.2_Linux.tar.gz bin/mtz2various bin/mtz2various hklin ... Any older binaries (ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/ccp4/4.0.1/) will

[ccp4bb] VERY old mtz file..

2018-11-09 Thread Eleanor Dodson
Anyone any idea what to do about this?? Created in 1992!! Seems unreadable.. No CTYP lines input for file: 1 Indices output even if all data items flagged "missing" Warning, NOT all LABOUT data lines given Warning: Machine stamp corrupted? Assuming native format. >> CCP4 library signal

Re: [ccp4bb] CC work / free

2018-11-09 Thread Clement Degut
Did not knew about that trick ! But I second that a well made script (i.e. not my homemade one) included in software for paired refinement would be a great addition. On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 at 20:13, Georg Mlynek wrote: > Dear Frank, > > pdb_redo webserver does. However you have to cheat to provoke

[ccp4bb] MoRDa update

2018-11-09 Thread Alexey Vagin
Dear All MoRDa is a pipeline for molecular replacement structure solution. A new update to the package is now available. The structure solution program is improved and database is extended . Both update and installation instructions are available from Morda homepage