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I think that XPREP would also be suitable for the purpose, but is limited
to 99 input files.

George



Prof. George M. Sheldrick FRS
Dept. Structural Chemistry,
University of Goettingen,
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Eleanor Dodson wrote:

> 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
> > > > >
> > > > > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 67BA8D5D
> > > > >
> > > > > 8AE2 F2F4 90F7 9640 28BC 686F 78FD 6669 67BA 8D5D
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ***********************************************************************
> > > *                                                                     *
> > > *               Dr. Martyn Winn                                       *
> > > *                                                                     *
> > > *   STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD, U.K.   *
> > > *   Tel: +44 1925 603455    E-mail: [log in to unmask]            *
> > > *   Fax: +44 1925 603634    Skype name: martyn.winn                   *
> > > *             URL: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/martyn/                      *
> > > ***********************************************************************
> > >
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