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Alex Granovsky
gran@classic.chem.msu.su

actually, with present versions of Firefly, file DICTNRY
has rather simple structure which is closely resembling
that of GAMESS (US). Basically, all you need is to know
the structure of record no. 1, the size of physical records
and the logical record numbers for data you are interested in.

If you do not hate some low-level file I/O programming,
please let me know and I'll post additional information here.
Perhaps, you could be interested to make your program publicly available to the Community.

Kind regards,
Alex Granovsky



On Thu Aug 4 '11 8:02pm, Andriy Zhugayevych wrote
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>Thank you, do you know such kind of conversion program, except Datagam? If the only solution is to read Firefly output file, do you know how to change the default 6-digits precision of the Firefly and avoid fixed-text-field-width overflow for large atomic basis sets and heavy atoms?
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>On Thu Aug 4 '11 2:24am, Amir Nasser Shamkhali wrote
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>>Dear Andriy
>>I think that you can open very larg output files by programmer file editor (PFE32.exe) program which is free for download. This software opens verly larg text files rapidly with variety of options. Also in order to read very large results such as molecular orbitals and etc, you can write a simple fortran program too read and save a part of out file.

>>Sincerely
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>>On Tue Aug 2 '11 3:26am, Andriy Zhugayevych wrote
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>>>For large scale calculations (say 2000 basis functions) the standard Firefly-output requires a lot of time (comparable with Firefly run-time) to read eigenvectors, overlap matrix etc. when importing them into other programs, mainly because of keyword searching through large-size file, human-oriented formatting, text-field overflow checking. PUNCH file is more machine-friendly, but it does not contain e.g. overlap matrix. DICTNRY is not documented as far as I know. Datagam postprocessing capabilities are very limited. Is there a way to obtain eigenvalues, eigenvectors, overlap matrix in a compact format, e.g. binary or text similar to AUX-file in MOPAC (with the possibility to increase the output precision)?