Why shouldn't there be a VDW term in the energy?  Isnt' that 
seperate from the charge calculation?
jim
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, David A.  Case wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003, Yuguang Mu wrote:
> > 
> > When I check how the EWald works in AMBER 6 I just run a trival system,
> > a water molecule in a big box, 20*20*20
> > using cutof 9 with sander, just a minimization.
> > 
> > I found the energy ouput , surprised to me that there is even a vwd term.
> 
> It doesn't sound like this should be happening; we would need more details
> (e.g. actual input files) to figure out what is going on.  What is your
> value of vdwmeth?  If this is turned on, you would get a vdW term, although
> it would not be accurate, since it assumes a continuous density.
> 
> ..dac
> 
> 
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