No no please no!!! How I hated the byte swap.. most people used VAXy things - York didn’t - our bytes were not your bytes .... stuff of nightmares...
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 22:25, Jonathan Cooper < 00000c2488af9525-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > Ian, I can, as a not very scientific footnote, confirm that Jim Austin > still has your Convex on his farm and, it seems, most of the manuals: > > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0087.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0086.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0078.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0077.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0089.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0084.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0103.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0110.jpg > > He also has at least one of the ex-bbk Evans & Sutherland PS300's: > > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0091.jpg > http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0093.jpg > > A few cobwebs, but pretty good going really for a 'former' pig-shed!! Not > sure what happened to the 11/750, though... School of Pharmacy rings a > bell?? > > None of this matters, but I just thought you might like to practice some > 'big-iron' byte-swapping again, and if so, York is the place to go, after > covid-19, of course ;-0 ;-0 > On Friday, 15 May 2020, 10:47:40 BST, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, that would have to be a very old map! I remember implementing the > auto-byte swap for VMS (necessary as we had both a Convex C220 running Unix > and a VAX 11/750)! > > In fact the Convex was rescued from scrap by Jim Austin and is still > working: http://www.corestore.org/convex.htm > > Cheers > > -- Ian > > > > > Cheers > > -- Ian > > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:24, Philippe BENAS < > 00000d88e888355a-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear Bernhard, > > Is it an old map ? > > Back to the old VAX times I had to dump CCP4 maps to ascii map files, then > swap bytes from VAX-DOS to Unix before converting them again to a CCP4 map > format (I think I was using mapman from USF) on a Unix workstation and be > able to read them in Frodo-Strasbourg or O. > > At least you could give it a shot and the ascii map file would help you > figuring out the issue by a visual inspection of the header and sections. > > All the best, > Philippe > > ------------------------------ > Philippe BENAS, Ph.D. > > ARN UPR 9002 CNRS > IBMC Strasbourg > 2, Allée Konrad Röntgen > F-67084 STRASBOURG cedex > +33.3.8841.7109 > E-mails: p.be...@ibmc-cnrs.unistra.fr, philippe_be...@yahoo.fr > URLs: http://www-ibmc.u-strasbg.fr/ , > http://www-ibmc.u-strasbg.fr/spip-arn/ > ------------------------------ > > > > Le jeudi 14 mai 2020 à 22:45:09 UTC+2, Bernhard Rupp < > hofkristall...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > Hi Fellows, > > > > I am failing on conversion of a ccp4 map to mtz using Sfall > > > > I provide as a scale reference a mtz with FP SIGFP and R free > > > > All cell constants and SG 20 and map headers seem to agree. > > > > But I receive following warning: > > > > *** WARNING - your map spacegroup is different to the program default one > *** > > > > and later > > > > >>>>>> CCP4 library signal library_file:Cannot open file (Warning) > > raised in tmpfile() failed, opening normal file instead. <<<<<< > > INPUT X USED AS X > > INPUT Y USED AS Z > > INPUT Z USED AS Y > > > > Which then leads to the imho - given above- justified complaint: > > > > Check map header agrees with fixed requirements for SFcalc for this > spacegroup. > > Check Nxyz 180 200 120 180 200 120 > > > > Check map header agrees with fixed requirements for SFcalc for this > spacegroup. > > Check Iuvw 3 2 1 3 1 2 > > <B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> > > SFALL: **** Fatal disagreement between input info and map header > > > > How do I fix this ? > > > > In principle all the information is there to do the job… > > > > Many thx, BR > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Bernhard Rupp > > Crystallographiae Vindicis Militum Ordo > > http://www.hofkristallamt.org/ > > b...@hofkristallamt.org > > +1 925 209 7429 > > +43 676 571 0536 > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Many plausible ideas vanish > > at the presence of thought > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
