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Naccess Issue, Pdb File

Hello,

For those of you familiar with the progra, I am having a bit of trouble running naccess. When I tried to install it using cygwin, apparently cygwin does not have an f77 compiler and to avoid any more complications we decided it's best that I run it through my university where it is already compiled, on a secure server. After logging into the server, i run naccess and get the following error:

/home/naccess2.1.1/naccess 1Y98_nopep.pdb

usage: you must supply a pdb file format

Do you have any idea what could be wrong? I know it is a pdb file because I can view it as a text file. As well, I can run it using visualization softwares like PyMol. Lastly, since I am getting that error message naccess must be working. If you don't see any reason why, how could I get the f77 compiler on cygwin so that I can install naccess directly on my computer?

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updated by Istvan Albert Istvan Albert • written by raweti • raweti

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usual suspect no 1: make sure that the pdb file has unix line endings, I think that you have windows text file format, python can handle that but native C probably not

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