Section 2.16.3 of the old xplor 3.1 manual (the printed one, p. 23) will tell you all about the vector show statement.
Briefly, your example will cause xplor to spit out the residue number of the atom that has the internal ID number of $id. The (resid) clause is not a selection--it's a vector-expression, in the manual's terminology. --JK "Evgeny A. Fadeev" wrote: > > hi, > i wonder if somebody could explain what does this > statement do. > > vector show element (resid) ( id $id ) > > is (resid) clause a selection? if it is, what would > it select? > > thank you. > > e. > > _______________________________________________ > Xplor-nih mailing list > [email protected] > http://dcb.cit.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/xplor-nih -- Dr John Kuszewski 301-594-5831 (voice) 301-402-2867 (fax) [email protected]
