NetpathXL To install NetpathXL, double-click NetpathXL-1.5.0-11889.msi as a user with administrator privileges. Two programs are distributed, DBXL and NetpathXL. They are normally installed in the directory c:\program files\usgs\NetpathXL\bin. They can be run from the start menu or by browsing for the executables. A shortcut can be added to the desktop by right-clicking on the executable and selecting Send To->Desktop. The program DbXL.exe has four functions: (1) to convert a .lon file (created by Netpath or PHREEQC) to an Excel file, (2) to open an existing NetpathXL file (.xls), (3) to create a new NetpathXL file (.xls), and (4) to create a PHREEQC input file (.pqi) from an existing NetpathXL file (.xls). All the basic chemical data for Netpath calculations are stored in the Excel file. Once you have you have NetpathXL spreadsheet files, simply copy and modify the Excel files as needed to generate new spreadsheet files. The columns of the NetpathXL spreadsheet are fixed and can not be changed. NetpathXL.exe will read an old .pat file (created by DB), a new .pat file (created by NetpathXL), a new .pat file created by PHREEQC, or a NetpathXL spreadsheet file (.xls). Once a file has been read, all the usual NETPATH calculations can be performed. The file db.dat is used to speciate the data in the Excel file at the beginning of running NetpathXL.exe. This database file is stored in the installation directory. The file Netpath.dat contains mineral stoichiometries used by NetpathXL.exe. NetpathXL looks for this file in the working directory (the directory containing the .xls or .pat file). If it is not found, the distributed version of this file, which is stored in the installation directory, is copied to the working directory. The calculation engine and all model development in NetpathXL is identical to Netpath. Documentation for Netpath is available in the doc subdirectory of the installation directory or at http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/GWC_coupled/netpath. Report bugs to dlpark@usgs.gov. NetpathXL 1.5.0 November 1, 2016 --------- svn 11885 --------- Excel 2013 has only one worksheet by default. NetpathXL assumed there were at least two worksheets when writing the explanation for the Han and Plummer plots. Now adds a new worksheet if necessary. NetpathXL 1.4.0 July 31, 2013 -------- svn 4805 -------- Fixed bug in NetpathXL that caused Excel to not be closed after a bad Excel file was opened. Updated Intel Fortran Compiler to 11.1.054 in order to run correctly on Windows 7. -------- svn 4486 -------- Fixed bug in DBXL that limited number of wells to 50. Caused program to exit if 51 wells were a .lon file. Current limit is 400 wells. Modified NetpathXL to skip model files that have no initial solution, only a final solution. PHREEQC will generate these model files when all of the water in the final solution is generated by mineral reactions, sometimes, but not always, when H2O(g) is a reactant. Also fixed a feature in PHREEQC that included solution -7 in the selected-output file during inverse-modeling calculations. These lines are now excluded from the selected-output file. -------- svn 4337 -------- Fixed error with long Excel path names that wrapped on the edit screen. Caused the final option to be overwritten and not visible.