dump file read problem

Hi Axel,

Thanks for your response. I have examined more on the problem which I
mentioned in my previous mail.

I just want to redefine the problem:

I have seen that this 'binary' characters in the dump files are occurring
ONLY after I invoke the "tad ..." command.

It does not depend upon the 'ensemble' description. I have attached a test
example (taken from LAMMPS distribution. I have only added two dump command.
One for the 'equillibration run and the other for the 'tad' part.) with this
mail.

I have found that the dump file (dump.all in this case) for the
equilibration is of "ASCII:Text" character, but the dump file which
corresponds to the 'tad' part (dump.tad) contains the binary character in
the very first line itself.

I have seen the same problem with other input files also consistently.

what version of LAMMPS do you use. i cannot
reproduce this behavior. i get text format output
in both cases.

[[email protected]... tad]$ file dump.*
dump.all: ASCII text
dump.tad: ASCII text

axel.