I am afraid that it is us who will need to conform eventually :), same to say about "Program Files (x86)" and the overall culture in Windows, the system where some 40% (!!!!) of CCP4 users have chosen to work.
Eugene On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:03, Mark J van Raaij wrote: > completely agree with avoiding spaces in paths and file names, but Google > Drive is very handy for sharing files, so every once in a while I forget to > move a file someone shares with me before running Unix programs on it and get > strange errors. Depending on how awake one is at the time finding out the > source can be time-consuming...Google should really remove the space! > > Mark J van Raaij > Lab 20B > Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas > Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC > c/Darwin 3 > E-28049 Madrid, Spain > tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 > http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij > > > > > > On 3 Jun 2014, at 13:47, Eugene Krissinel wrote: > >> I take this chance to to confirm once more, as publicly as possible, that >> file paths with spaces are discouraged in today's CCP4. This inconvenience >> originates from ancient times in computing when good half of CCP4 was >> written and when spaces were disallowed on file system nodes. >> >> Please take a notice of this fact as CCP4 core still receives (albeit >> infrequent) bug reports, where surprising behaviour is due to using file >> paths with white spaces. >> >> Fixing this has proved to be a hard problem, purely because of technical >> choices made quite a number of years ago. But good news are that this >> limitation will be removed in new CCP4 Gui under development. >> >> Eugene >> >> On 3 Jun 2014, at 08:23, Mark J van Raaij wrote: >> >>> This also occurred to me once where the file path had a space,(/Google >>> Drive/), when I moved the file somewhere else it worked. I was using >>> baverage from the CCP4i GUI. >>> >>> Mark J van Raaij >>> Lab 20B >>> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas >>> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC >>> c/Darwin 3 >>> E-28049 Madrid, Spain >>> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 >>> http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3 Jun 2014, at 09:20, Tim Gruene wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Bing, >>>> >>>> can you post the exact command you were using, please? Also please check >>>> with a different PDB file. In case you are using baverage from the >>>> command line, can you make sure you are actually using the program from >>>> ccp4 by typing 'which baverage' at the command prompt? >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> On 06/02/2014 10:16 PM, Wang, Bing wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi CCP4, >>>>> >>>>> Recently when I input my pdb file and run the baverage in the ccp4 suit >>>>> to check the temperature factor, it always tell me "No tables were fund >>>>> in this file." Could you tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there >>>>> another software instead of baverage I could use to check the temperature >>>>> factor? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> Bing >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr Tim Gruene >>>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie >>>> Tammannstr. 4 >>>> D-37077 Goettingen >>>> >>>> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Scanned by iCritical. >> > -- Scanned by iCritical.
