[esp-r] Re: climatelist file on Windows version ESP-r_on_USB_L

[Jon Hand]

The USB memory stick version of ESP-r was produced by a group
in China and we do not have control of the contents. A nice bit
of detective work on your part to figure out how to adapt the
climate list file.  Well spotted.

And, in case you ever want to switch over to the standard
native windows versions of ESP-r for the C:\Esru folder structure
it does come with a matching set of climate files and climatelist file.

-Regards, Jon Hand
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Christopher Heard [cheard at prodigy.net.mx]
Sent: 26 August 2009 15:55
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r]  climatelist file on Windows version ESP-r_on_USB_L

I am in the process of following the cookbook and exercises using the
Windows version of ESP-r on a USB memory stick.

However I ran into a few problems trying to follow the exercise on the
climate database files.

Looking into the "climatelist" file I found that although the instructions
for the installation on a USB memory stick recommend it to be configured as
drive L:,
in the file the lines which start with "*dbfl" show paths which are
c:/esru/esp-r/climate/.

Taking note of the admonition:
# WARNING: Keep this file up to date with current directory structure !
I changed them to L:\esru\esp-r\climate\ . (Windows uses backslashes) But to
no avail.

If one examines the following:
*item
*name Birmingham IWEC WMO 035340
*aide Birmingham (sourced from IWEC/DoE)
*dbfl c:/esru/esp-r/climate/uk_birmingham

on changing this to:

*item
*name Birmingham IWEC WMO 035340
*aide Birmingham (sourced from IWEC/DoE)
*dbfl L:\esru\esp-r\climate\uk_birmingham_iwec

everything seems to work (changing the paths and adding "_iwec" to the
Birmingham file name).

Since in the cookbook the example uses the Birmingham IWEC file it might be
helpful to change the climatelist file in the ESP-r_on_USB_L.zip
downloadable file.

As I am a beginner on ESR-r, I might be completely wrong of course.

The shortness of the cookbook is heartening compared to the 7kg of manuals
that used to accompany DOE2.1e, no graphical interface either,
just a strictly formatted ASCII file.

All the best
Christopher Heard
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana,
Unidad Cuajimalpa
Depto. Diseño
Mexico City


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