HEC-2 and Win2000

We are modifying a Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) Flood Insurance Study
(FIS). FEMA requires that the original hydraulic model be used when
modifications are made to a FIS unless the entire stream is updated. We are not
modifying the entire stream; therefore we are required to use HEC-2.

I've been trying to get HEC-2 and COED working under Win2000, and have encountered a problem with COED.

It apparently is supposed to be run with a command line like "COED FILE.DAT /FS /HP:HEC2" which tells it to open the file FILE.DAT in full-screen mode and using the HEC2 help file. This works perfectly under WinNT; however, under Win2000, this results in an error message:

** NO FILE NAME SPECIFIED, TYPE:
COED, filename

This error suggested that COED wanted a comma between COED and filename. When I add a comma to the command line ("COED, FILE.DAT /FS /HP:HEC2"), COED runs and loads the file as it is supposed to. Unfortunately, this doesn't entirely solve the problem, as the MENU2 program creates a RUNFILE.BAT file which contains a COED command line on the fly to run the COED program, and it doesn't add the comma.

Can anyone verify that this is a problem with COED, MENU2, and/or HEC-2 under Win2000? Is there a fix or workaround available?

Thanks.
Brian Haeffner
haeffb@mail.modot.state.mo.us

Why are you using HEC-2 ??? Start using HEC-RAS 2.2. It is a Windows program and you will not have this problem. You can import all your HEC-2 files and you dont have to use COED

Why dont you use DOS instead of Windows2000 (then you will not have any problem with HEC-2) It is the same difference as using HEC-2 instead of HEC-RAS

Thorbergur Steinn Leifsson
thsl@almenna.is