Hi Steven,

You can't use XBuild in batch mode, as far as I know.

You have to use another program for this.  I use R for the task, and
have some scripts designed to make .GSX files that you could adapt for
your purposes.

Let me know if you would like them, and I will send along.

Cheers, Lyndon

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Steven Mauget
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> Dear DSSAT Users:
>
> I¹m planning to use DSSAT4 to model cotton production using 30 years of
> weather data from  4 sites in west Texas ­ 120 cropping years total.  My
> problem is that in reading the DSSAT4 Vol2 pdf and the Xbuild help file it
> seems that creating the 120 COX Filex files necessary for all those model
> runs  might be kind of labor-intensive. That is, in my reading of how Xbuild
> works, I¹ll have to assign one weather file to each Filex file, and repeat
> this for all of the 4 station¹s 30 cropping years. Or, I might create a
> single template COX file and edit it to assign the different year¹s data for
> each of the 4 weather station sites. But either way I use Xbuild 120 times
> to create 120 COX files. I was wondering (hoping) if there was some way that
> Xbuild could loop over the 30 years of  weather data for each of the
> stations to create 30 COX files at once, but  the instructions and the
> Xbuild GUI do not suggest that is possible.
>
> Am I reading the instructions wrong? If not, does anyone have any
> suggestions for creating 120 FileEX files that involves less work?
>
> Thanks for the help and advice,
>
> Steve Mauget
>