[gmx-users] trajectory file problem

[Anton Feenstra]

David van der Spoel wrote:
> If you feel like making a repair tool, you'd have to make something that
> reads a binary file and looks for integers with value 1995. In contrast
> to what Anton said, the possibility of finding a number like that by
> accident is 1/2^32, or one in a billion.

That's a Gigabyte, should still be good enough. I know someone in Groningen
who successfully recovered (part of) his trajectory that way. His one got
maimed by nfs dropping a packet somewere. The tool was lost, however, before
we could add it to the Gromacs source...


-- 
Groetjes,

Anton
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