Re: [geomview-users] crystal data

[Tamara M. <tm...@cs...>]

It's common that the indicator for a newline in a file is mangled when  
converting between Windows and other operating systems. I don't know  
enough about gedit to tell you what the right command is for  
unmangling the file format, but that's where I'd start investigating.  
It can look right because the text editors are trying to be  
intelligent about showing you the file in a comprehensible way, but if  
under the hood the format is wrong then that could certainly confuse  
Geomview. If you have access to a shell (for example, Cygwin on  
Windows), here's a little shell script to convert mangled Windows  
files that might fix your problem:

#!/bin/sh

while
    case "$1" in
    "") break;;
    *) tr -d "\\15" < "$1" > $1.new;
       mv $1.new $1;
       echo fixed newlines for "$1";;
    esac
do shift
done


Cheers,
Tamara

On 12-May-10, at 1:02 PM, w.e. sharp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have been able by typing in data in gedit as an off file to get a
> picture of a polyhedron.  If I then copy the data on to a flash drive
> and look at the data set on a windows based machine and rename the  
> file
> as a .txt file and then copy it back into geomview we can recover the
> polyhedron.
>
> To view the file on a windows machine, we can open the file in wordpad
> and all looks fine.  We can then save the file from wordpad as a text
> file and copy it back into crystal data.  It can then be opened with
> gedit and saved as an off file.  However, the polyhedron will not show
> in the camera??
>
> What is it in the off file that the camera needs to recover the
> polyhedron that is missing or has been added by viewing it in wordpad?
>
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Ed Sharp
> sh...@sc...
>
>
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