Re: [Open Babel] Multiple files in new conversion framework

[Michael B. <mb...@gm...>]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:51:39PM -0400, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
> I haven't thought about how this would hook into your new framework. 
> But I'm assuming that we could also optionally poke around the current 
> directory for related files. So the GAMESS code could look for a .dat 
> file and read that too.
> 
> Sound reasonable?

In general yes, but we really need to make sure that the two files are
from the same calculation. Sometimes, I keep many files in one directory
with only small naming differences. If the file format itself makes it
possible to figure this out (e.g. by writing a timestamp), this is no
problem, but just looking at the filename might not be enough.


Michael