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Installing NWTC Design Codes On Pcs Running Windows XP

This paper will guide you through the installation of our codes for the windows xp(r) operating system. This tutorial will assume the code being installed is Crunch, but these instructions should work for any of the other codes we distribute.

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Installing NWTC Design Codes On Pcs Running Windows XP

This paper will guide you through the installation of our codes for the windows xp(r) operating system. This tutorial will assume the code being installed is Crunch, but these instructions should work for any of the other codes we distribute.

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Installing NWTC Design Codes

on PCs Running Windows XP®


by

Marshall L. Buhl, Jr.


National Wind Technology Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado

July 10, 2006

Introduction ble-clicking on the System file or icon will bring up the


Installing and running console applications such as System Properties window. Click on the Advanced tab.
the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) design Near the bottom, of this tab, click the Environment
codes is different than it is for normal 32-bit Windows Variables button. That will bring up two list boxes—
applications. Usually, you will want to install our one is for System Variables and the other is for User
codes in such a way that they will run from a command Variables. Select Path from the System Variables list
window and from any folder. and click on Edit.
This short paper will guide you through the instal- The word Path will show up in the Variable name
lation of our codes for the Windows XP® operating box and the current search path will be below it in the
system. This tutorial will assume the code being Variable value box. Enter “C:\Batch;” to the begin-
installed is Crunch, but these instructions should work ning of the path in the Variable value box. Do not
for any of the other codes we distribute. forget to put in the semicolon separator. Click the OK
buttons to close all the windows we used to change the
path and put the change into effect.
Retrieving Files from the Archives
The change you just made will be permanent and
You should download the archive of a code from will apply to any new command windows you open.
our web server page http://wind.nrel.gov/
You do not need to reboot your PC. The search paths
designcodes/. The archive file should have a name for windows that were already open when you make
such as Crunch_v233.exe. Create a folder called the change will not be updated, so you cannot use them
Crunch somewhere on your file system and put this file
to run the code.
there. For this example, we will assume the folder’s
name is C:\DesignCodes\Crunch. You can double
click on the file from Windows Explorer or by entering Creating a Batch File
Crunch_v233 at a command prompt with the Crunch The next step is to create a batch file to invoke the
folder as the current directory. This will create some code. Using a plain-text editor, create a file called
files and folders. Included in the Crunch folder will be Crunch.bat in the C:\Batch folder. You need only one
a file called Crunch.exe. This is the executable file for line in the batch file. Its contents should look some-
Crunch. thing similar to this:
C:\DesignCodes\Crunch\Crunch.exe %*
Setting Up a Folder for Batch Files This tells the operating system to find an executable
This is something you need to do only once. After file named Crunch.exe in the C:\Crunch folder. The
you’ve done it for one of our codes, you will not need %* tells the batch file to pass the command-line argu-
to repeat the process for other codes. ments to Crunch.exe.
Create a folder somewhere in your file system.
This tutorial will use C:\Batch. Now, add the folder to Invoking the Code
your search path; you must have Administrator
To run a code, open a command window and set the
privileges on your PC to do this. In Windows XP, you
folder to one where you have your user-created files. It
click on Start, Settings, and then Control Panel. Dou-
is inadvisable to do your work in the design-code fold-
ers. To start the code, enter something similar to this:
Crunch <input_file>
That’s all there is to it. Happy computing!

Caveats
NREL makes no promises about the usability or ac-
curacy of this tutorial.

Acknowledgements
Funding for writing this tutorial came from the U.S.
Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC36-
98-GO10337 to the National Renewable Energy Labo-
ratory. The original document that detailed the steps
for using Windows NT® was created using funds from
subtask WER12410. Updating the information for
Windows XP was paid for by subtask WER62103.

Feedback
If you have comments about this tutorial, please
contact Marshall Buhl. E-mail and posting to our
forums are the preferred methods of communication.

Marshall L. Buhl, Jr.


NWTC/3811
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
1617 Cole Blvd.
Golden, CO 80401-3393
United States of America
Web: http://wind.nrel.gov/designcodes/
Email: [email protected]
Forum: http://wind.nrel.gov/forum/wind/
Voice: (303) 384-6914
Fax: (303) 384-6901

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