[Wien] structeditor load struct problem with octave

Peter Blaha pblaha at theochem.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Jun 21 20:06:26 CEST 2012


Do you really think anybody can help if you do not attach the struct file
(and the specific error/problem/what you want to do) ????

My first guess: the starting struct file is wrong.

Am 21.06.2012 19:40, schrieb Lucy Kiruri:
> Dear Slomski,
> I am have the same problem you had with wien2k while generating a slab. I tried to check for responses but i didn't see any. below is the question am referring too:
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>
> Dear developers and users of Wien2k,
>
> during the workshop I have learned how to create a slab using the
> supercell tool and structeditor tool written in octave. With supercell
> everything works fine, but I need structeditor because the atoms"grow"
> in [111] direction. The steps were quite clear and it worked. On my
> system, however it fails, and so far I need help. These are the
> steps,which I used to creat a slab.
>
> 1) creating a unit cell as usually will give me name.struct (in my case
> Pb.struct)
>
> 2) then i went to the directory where name.struct is and started octave
>
> 3) s = loadstruct(Pb.struct)
>
> After this I get the error:
>
> octave:2>  s=loadstruct(Pb2.struct)
> error: `Pb2'  undefined near line 2 column 14
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 2oble
>
> I also tried s=loadstruct("Pb2.struct")
>
> But this gave me theerror message  <http://zeus.theochem.tuwien.ac.at/pipermail/wien/2010-August/013550.html#>:
>
> octave:3>  s = loadstruct("Pb2.struct")
> error: `strcmp'  undefined near line 18 column 11
> error: if: error evaluating conditional expression
> error: evaluating if command near line 18, column 7
> error: called from `loadstruct'  in file
> `/home5/slomski/build/SRC_structeditor/bin/loadstruct.m'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 3, column 3
>
> I also scanned the mailing list, but did not found any solution to this
> problem.
>
> I am thankful for any hint on this.
>
>
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> How did you solve this problem. Please help me. Thank You.
> Warm Regards.
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