Conversion of a set of Digital Micrograph files to Tiff format:

• Had a cd of dm3 files, with various filenames, spread across many directories
• em2em did not recognize the files

  Step	Procedure	Command
  Step 1	copy onto local directory, named disk	cp -r /media/cdrecorder disk
  Step 2	Need to be in imod environment	imod_env
  Step 3	convert all dm3 files to mrc format using dm2mrc	find disk -name "*.dm3" -exec ~/convert.com {} \;

Files needed:

convert.com

#! /bin/csh -f
dm2mrc $1 $1:r.mrc

replace.com

#! /bin/csh -f
echo MRC > temp.txt
echo TIFF >> temp.txt
echo 2D >> temp.txt
echo NO >> temp.txt
echo $1 >> temp.txt
echo $1:r >> temp.txt
echo LINUX >> temp.txt
em2em < temp.txt > /dev/null
rm temp.txt

• Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 02 Jun 2006