[gmx-developers] May be bug in 64-bit !

[Anton Feenstra (Thuis)]

Utkal Ranjan Pradhan wrote:
> 1.         The program "genbox" does generates the "temp.top" file and tries
> to rename it "cpeptide.top". But it is not able to rename the file as the
> folder contains another "cpeptide.top" file. But this behaviour is NOT seen
> in 32-bit of UNIX. 

This is a known issue, that is present in *ALL* native mswin versions of
Gromacs, as a careful search of the mailing list would have told you.
MSWin and Unix handle opening of files and open files differently.
In particular, mswin does not allow you to rename an open file.


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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