Derek and others:

I am sorry about the possible confusion caused by the ICASA standards
posted on the ICASA web site.  These standards were developed after we
released DSSAT v3.5 in 1998.  We are still discussing the final format of
the ICASA standards and an update will be posted later this year.

The codes that relate to DSSAT v3.5 can be found in the DETAILS.CDE,
DATA.CDE, SOIL.CDE and WEATHER.CDE in the DSSAT35 directory.  They can also
be accessed under the DSSAT shell under DATA - BACKGROUND - CODES.  We
realize that some codes might be missing or are duplicates and hopefully
this has been corrected in the new standards.

We use a very strict format for the DSSAT input files.  You can find the
format of these files in the DSSAT manuals, Volume 2, chapter 1.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

GH

At 12:22 PM 5/24/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I have a question about the data standards developed by IBSNAT.  On the
>DSSAT web page there is an example of ICASA files with codes for an overall
>file (http://icasanet.org/standards/append1.html).
>         Does this example file contain all of the information needed to
>run the DSSAT 3.5 crop models or is this file only appropriate to DSSAT 4.0?