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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear QE Developers,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am a longtime ‘dabbler’ in QE, having not used the program in too much depth other than a few geometry optimisations. Up until recently I have always interacted with the package over a unix-like HPC cluster, but have recently found it
convenient to run small jobs on a windows desktop.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am using the precompiled binaries (v6.3), and I have noticed that when composing the input file one must specify paths to output files, pseudopotentials, etc using the unix-style forward slash “/”, eg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">pseudo_dir = "C:/Users/me/QE/pseudos"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">however, this is syntactically incorrect on windows operating systems, as the accepted convention should use a backslash as a directory separator, eg.
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<p class="MsoNormal">pseudo_dir = "C:\Users\me\QE\pseudos"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The real problem I am having is that Burai, the nice GUI from Japan will construct the input files using the latter convention; however, when pw.exe receives an input file with this structure it throws an error, unable to parse the directory.
This isn’t a problem for Burai on mac or linux platforms, since their directory delimiter is the same as unix.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to have the windows binary (or, indeed all versions) to recognise either a backslash or a forward slash in the input file as a directory delimiter? I can see where this might cause problems in escaping characters properly,
but from an end-user standpoint it would be easier to move input files across different platforms if either character would work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards from Australia,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-jld<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Assoc. Professor Josh Lipton-Duffin | Principal Research Fellow for Surface Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Institute for Future Environments (IFE) | Central Analytical Research Facility (CARF)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Address: Level 6, P Block, Gardens Point campus, 2 George St Brisbane QLD 4000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: +61 7 3138 0762 | | Email: josh.liptonduffin@qut.edu.au | Web: www.qut.edu.au/ife/carf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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