I think it is far safer to run CAD with 9 files,
then again with the output file as the first input, plus 8 more etc etc
etc..
This isnt something you want to do very often
Eleanor
On 11/03/2010 06:01 PM, Ian Tickle wrote:
> I have a version wten is it?
hich I modified a while back to handle up to 999
> files simultaneously, and which I can send to anyone privately on
> request, as long as you accept the entire risk of using it (and you
> should probably also heed Martyn's warning!). It has probably
> diverged from the distributed version and may not have benefitted from
> any recent (and no-so-recent) bugfixes, so no guarantees to fix it if
> it doesn't work for you!
>
> And yes it was a pig to get it working, it wasn't just a matter of
> increasing MAXFILES, the file limits are also embedded in the labels.
>
> Caveat emptor!
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Ian
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Martyn Winn<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Yes, CAD is limited to 9 input files. I seem to remember I once tried to
>> increase the limit, but got into problems (it is not just a case of
>> increasing MAXFILES). It is far simpler and safer to run CAD
>> iteratively.
>>
>> But an MTZ file can hold more. The current limits are:
>> #define MXTALS 100
>> #define MSETS 1000
>> #define MCOLUMNS 10000
>>
>> In principle, we could remove these limits, but I guess they are ok in
>> most normal cases ...
>>
>> m
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 18:20 +0100, Rita GIORDANO wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 9 mtz files are the limit of CAD, one things you can do is to modify the
>>> source file , that is wrote in fortran, or write a bash script or that
>>> run iteratively the CAD script and change the MTZ files.
>>>
>>> R.
>>>
>>> On 03/11/2010 18:11, Francis E Reyes wrote:
>>>> CCP4'ers,
>>>>
>>>> Are 9 datasets the maximum for an mtz file? or a single run of cad? The
>>>> manual (http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/cad.html) seems to suggest that 9 is
>>>> the limit per cad run but not for a given mtz.
>>>>
>>>> F
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------
>>>> Francis E. Reyes M.Sc.
>>>> 215 UCB
>>>> University of Colorado at Boulder
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>
>>
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