[gmx-users] g_dist without output file

[Mark Abraham]

On 11/03/2012 6:38 PM, Atila Petrosian wrote:
> Dear Lina
>
> Very thanks for your time and attention.
>
> Initial command was : g_dist -f *.trr -s *.tpr -n *.ndx -o dist.xvg -dist 0.5
>
> After running following command the problem was solved :
>
> g_dist -f *.trr -s *.tpr -n *.ndx -o dist.xvg -dist 5
>
> t: 17008  6773 NA 21881 NA  3.05534 (nm)
> t: 17008  6774 NA 21882 NA  3.27381 (nm)
> t: 17008  6775 NA 21883 NA  2.44312 (nm)
> t: 17008  6776 NA 21884 NA  2.0746 (nm)
> Last frame          2 time 17008.000
>
>
> Now, I have a general question. In some of gromacs tools, there is
> distance parameter.
>
> I want to know what is dimension of the distance in gromacs? nm or A?

See manual section 2.2. Unfortunately, g_dist -dist is one of the places 
where the units are not redundantly specified in the g_dist -h help output.

Mark