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DPM Version 3 UNIX Compilation notes, September 30, 2008

DPM Version 3 is a stand-alone program written primarily in Fortran 77 with some Fortran 90. It was compiled and tested for a Solaris X UNIX Operating System. The source code was compiled using the Sun Fortran 90 compiler by typing “f90 DPMv3.0.f –o DPMv3.0.exe” at the prompt. The source code, executable file, user’s guide, sample data sets and README file are included in the compressed and tarred file called DPMv3.0.tar.Z that can be downloaded from http://wa.water.usgs.gov/dpm.

After downloading file DPMv3.0.tar.Z, the file should be moved to the directory where the user wants to run the program. At the prompt, type “gzcat DPMv3.0.tar.Z | tar -xvof -” to uncompress and extract all files from the tarred file. All extracted files will be in the directory where DPMv3.0.tar.Z was located.

To run the program, type “DPMv3.0.exe” at the prompt and the program will execute using the sample data sets for input. Verify that the program is executing properly by comparing new output files called out.* with the equivalent output files called compare_out.*. The user has the option of reading input files from separate directories and also directing output files to other directories. If this is done, pathnames in file dpm_filenames have to be adjusted accordingly.

Documentation for DPM Version 3 is in preparation by Bauer, Vaccaro, and van Heeswijk. Until this new documentation is published, DPM Version 3 can be referenced by citing the DPM documentation listed at http://wa.water.usgs.gov/dpm and noting the URL and date of access.