Dear Forum I tried running example21 with the following results. All of the other examples I have run have executed properly. I looked through the archives for the past 6 months but have found nothing about this problem. The line 241-6 in run_example read: $ECHO " running the calculation with 32 H2O molecules...\c" if test "0$1" -ge 32 ; then $FPMD_COMMAND < h2o-32.in > h2o-32.out $ECHO " done" else $ECHO " skipped" # too big, don't run fi All of the others are similar with difference numbers of water molecules. The output is shown below. amos@linux:~/Desktop/espresso-3.2/examples/example21> ./run_example -ftrace=full 64 /home/amos/Desktop/espresso-3.2/examples/example21 : starting This example shows how to use cp.x to perform molecular dynamics simulation of medium to large systems. executables directory: /home/amos/Desktop/espresso-3.2/bin pseudo directory: /home/amos/Desktop/espresso-3.2/pseudo temporary directory: /home/amos/tmp checking that needed directories and files exist... done running cp.x as: /home/amos/Desktop/espresso-3.2/bin/cp.x cleaning /home/amos/tmp... done running the calculation with 32 H2O molecules..../run_example: line 242: test: 0-ftrace=full: integer expression expected skipped running the calculation with 64 H2O molecules..../run_example: line 507: test: 0-ftrace=full: integer expression expected skipped running the calculation with 128 H2O molecules..../run_example: line 964: test: 0-ftrace=full: integer expression expected skipped running the calculation with 256 H2O molecules..../run_example: line 1805: test: 0-ftrace=full: integer expression expected skipped running the calculation with 384 H2O molecules..../run_example: line 3030: test: 0-ftrace=full: integer expression expected skipped running the calculation with 512 H2O molecules..../run_example: line 4639: test: 0-ftrace=full: integer expression expected skipped /home/amos/Desktop/espresso-3.2/examples/example21 : done I did try to substitute nat/3 for 0$1 but it didn't work. Any help would be appreciated. Amos Leffler Walnut Creek, Ca. (unaffiliated)