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.
- Copy everything except the NWS .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 in case 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!
- 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.
- Make a list of the .dat files
in \dat2par.
- Run dat2par (MS-DOS ONLY!).
- Check the results.