[gmx-users] Deleting a folder

[Justin Lemkul]

On 2/27/18 6:23 PM, Ali Ahmed wrote:
> Hello GROMACS users,
>
> I'm sorry for the crazy things I did.
> I was trying to update electric filed code for magnetic filed
> implementation by adding the cross product term to the force calculation
> equation. unfortunately, I failed and deleted the mdlib folder (GROMACS
> 5.1.2).
> The surprising thing is that GROMAS still applies electric filed.
> My question is, how does GROMACS apply electric field while the code is
> deleted?

Deleting source code has no effect on software that's already installed. 
If you try to install again, then your compilation would fail due to 
missing files.

-Justin

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