Thanks everyone for pointing out Pointless and, in particular, to Tim
Gruene for explaining my failure to RTFM.

Nate

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:21 AM, Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> wrote:

> Dear Nathan,
>
> the xds documentation explains:
> "At present, MERGE=TRUE is enforced by XDSCONV for all output file formats
> other
> than CNS and SHELX."
>
> so this is not a bug but known. Pointless is probably the route to take, as
> Graeme suggested.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:47:05AM -0500, Nathan Pollock wrote:
> > I am trying to convert XDS file into something that CCP4 would recognize
> > while keeping reflections unmerged. Hard to believe but it's not working:
> > the keyword MERGE=FALSE is not recognized and the default TRUE is being
> > used no matter what I do:
> >
> >  ***** XDSCONV ***** (VERSION March 1, 2015  BUILT=20150215) 29-Apr-2015
> >  Author: Wolfgang Kabsch
> >  Copy licensed until 31-Mar-2016 to
> >   academic users for non-commercial applications
> >  No redistribution.
> >
> >  ========== CONTROL CARDS ==========
> >
> >  INPUT_FILE=temp.ahkl
> >
> >  OUTPUT_FILE=temp.hkl CCP4
> >  FRIEDEL'S_LAW=FALSE
> >  MERGE=FALSE                               !  <-- Note this input
> >
> >
> >
> >  SPACE_GROUP_NUMBER=    4
> >  UNIT_CELL_CONSTANTS=    51.44    34.83   128.38  90.000  92.713  90.000
> >  FRIEDEL'S_LAW=FALSE
> >  MERGE=TRUE                              !  <-- Note the default used
> > instead
> >  NUMBER OF REFLECTION RECORDS ON INPUT FILE      574453
> >  NUMBER OF IGNORED REFLECTIONS (I< -3.0*SIGMA)        0
> >  NUMBER OF REFLECTIONS ACCEPTED FROM INPUT FILE  129894
> >
> >  NUMBER OF UNIQUE REFLECTIONS ASSIGNED TO TEST SET        0
> >  NUMBER OF UNIQUE TEST REFLECTIONS INHERITED              0
> >  NUMBER OF UNIQUE TEST REFLECTIONS NEWLY GENERATED        0
> >
> >  NUMBER OF REFLECTION RECORDS ON OUTPUT FILE      69305
> >  NUMBER OF RECORDS ASSIGNED TO WORKING SET        69305
> >  NUMBER OF RECORDS ASSIGNED TO TEST SET               0
> >
> *************************************************************************************************
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong???
> >
> > Also, please excuse a newbie question but is there a way to run XDSCONV
> > with an input file name other than XDSCONV.INP? Every time I try command
> > XDSCONV XDSCONV_BLAh.INP all I get is "XDSCONV: command not found"
> >
> > Thank you!
>
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