SETUP AND RUN QUAL2E ON

WINDOWS 2000 AND WINDOWS NT SYSTEMS

The files and setup procedure described below allow the use of QUAL2E as an
independent (stand-alone) application on Windows 2000 and Windows NT systems.
QUAL2E will not run from the BASINS 3.0 interface under these operating systems. You
must have administrator privileges on your PC to perform the following setup procedure.

1. Unzip the "QUAL2E (Win 2000).zip" file into a new directory, preferably c:\qual2e.
The directory structure includes a root directory (e.g., qual2e) and a subdirectory
called 'prog' (e.g., qual2e\prog). The root directory contains data files and the
prog directory contains the program files.

2. Copy the files GSW.exe and GSWdll.dll from the qual2e\prog folder into the
%Systemroot%\System32 directory (this is usually WinNT\System32).

3. Set up a new Environment Variable name "q2edir". To do this: * Right-click on My

Computer, Select Properties from the pull-down menu, Click on the Advanced
tab, click on Environment Variables. In WinNT, click on the Environment tab. *
Under System variables (lower window in Win2000, upper window in WinNT), click
on New...(in WinNT, scroll to the bottom and click on the blank space), in the
Variable Name box, enter "q2edir", in the Variable Value box enter the path to
the QUAL2e root directory where the QUAL2E Data files are located (for example
"c:\qual2e"), Click OK. Keep the Environment Variable window open for the next
step.

4. Change the Path System Variable to include paths to the Qual2e root directory
and Qual2e\prog directory. To do this: * Under Environment Variables, System
Variables (in WinNT, just System Variables), Select the Path variable, Click on
Edit (in WinNT, there is no Edit button, just edit the value)... * At the end of the

statement Add ";c:\qual2e;c:\qual2e\prog" (do not include the quotes, and modify
the path accordingly if you extracted the zipped files to something other than
c:), Click OK. * Click OK to all of the open windows to close them and get out of
the Properties setup.

5. In Explorer, right-click on the Wqual2ex short cut (in the PROG folder) and select
Properties. Go to Programs and change %Ql2dir... to %q2edir... in both the Cmd
line and the Working line.

6. Move the Qual2e shortcut (qual2e.lnk) from the Qual2e folder to where you want
to run it from, for example, the desktop.

7. Now, you can simply click on the shortcut to run QUAL2E. Use one of the three
test files in the Qual2e directory to test it. If the program does not produce or
cannot locate the output file, check to make sure you followed the above
instructions correctly, and reboot your computer.

While the QUAL2E Windows interface does appear to work fine in both NT and 2000, the
QUAL2E graphics program appears to work only in Windows 2000.

This application modification was made by Robert G. Traver, Ph.D., PE, of Villanova
University. What he did was to redo all the batch files and shortcuts so they worked in
Windows 2000 and Windows NT. He had to redo the config.sys and autoexec.bat files to
do this, and modify the compatibility codes using trial and error. For further
information, contact Dr. Traver at: Robert G. Traver, Ph.D., PE Department of Civil Eng.
Villanova University 800 Lancaster Ave Villanova PA 19085 Robert.Traver@Villanova.edu
www87.homepage.Villanova.edu/Robert.Traver/(610) 519-7899.

For technical support regarding QUAL2E and this modification, please contact: Paul
Cocca, EPA OST cocca.paul@epa.gov

Additional questions regarding BASINS software development, maintenance, and

operation may be directed to:

Russell

Kinerson,

wells.david@epa,gov

EPA
Ed

OST

kinerson.russell@epa.gov

Partington,

EPA

OST

David

Wells,

partington.ed@epa.gov

EPA
Henry

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