Run-through of dat2par

This run-through will work only for MS-DOS systems. You'll likely be asked whether to open or run the executable programs when you click on the links below (although this might have been turned off for your browser).

This run-through will not work properly directly from the CD because we don't know ahead of time what drive letter is assigned to your CD, and because dat2par is designed to write the output files and such into the directory in which the program is located.

  1. Copy everything except the NWS directory and its .dat files and the SOD directory and its files from the CD to either c:\dat2par or d:\dat2par. The D: drive will take precedence here if a directory of that name is found on each drive.
    • Only those wind files that are remotely near your stations of interest are needed, but you might be surprised ahead of time which wind stations will be used.
    • Operations will halt if a needed wind parameter file is not found.
    • Keep the wind files in the directories as you find them!
  2. Copy the NWS precipitation/temperature .dat files of the stations of interest into d:\dat2par or c:\dat2par. These files can be found on the CD by state under the NWS directory and should be copied directly into \dat2par. Do not place them within a subdirectory.
  3. Make a list of the .dat files in \dat2par. You may have to change the properties of the list file originally copied from the CD to make it not read only before this will work the first time.
  4. Run dat2par (MS-DOS ONLY!).
  5. Check the commentary that \dat2par provides.

Run-through of dat2par
David Hall
September 2000
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Moscow, Idaho, Forestry Sciences Laboratory
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