Running big jobs with FDS (continued)

[Kevin McGrattan <kevin.mcgrattan@nist.gov>]

All

This message is for FDS users running big jobs who are
getting stack overflow
errors. All other users can disregard.

Thanks for the feedback on the program editbin which allows
one to change the
stack size of the fds2.exe executable. Those of you who have
the Digital Visual
Fortran/Visual Studio compiling software can run editbin
because editbin is part
of the package. What I didn't realize is that those without
the compiler need two
additional files to make this program work. I have replaced
the file editbin.exe
with the zip file editbin.zip at the ftp site

ftp://ftp.nist.gov/pub/bfrl/mcgratta/FDS2/PC

The zip file contains three files: editbin.exe, link.exe and
a .dll file
Put all three into your c:\nist\fds directory, and then from
the command prompt

editbin /STACK:20000000 fds2.exe

This program simply edits the binary executable fds2.exe,
changing the stack limit
that I set when compiling (10000000 or 10 Mbytes) to
20000000 or 20 Mbytes. For 
those of you who could not get editbin to work, try again
with the two additional
files. Let me know if it works for you.

Thanks

Kevin


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Kevin McGrattan
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8663
Gaithersburg MD 20899-8663

Telephone: (301) 975 2712
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