Modified 30 July 2004

This package contains version 2.402 of GUICS, Graphical User Interface for
Crop Models.	

Please note that in order to run the cotton model GOSSYM (installed as MAFES), 
GUICS has to be placed in the root directory of your C: drive, i.e., C:\GUICS.
This is because the location of some files are hard coded. This will be 
addressed in the future. 

If you are using a recent version of windows such as windows 2000 or 
XP, the new windows installer will recognize GUICS.msi when you click on it.
Otherwise just click on the setup.exe. If the new windows installer has not been
installed on your machine, the setup program will install it. The documentation
will be updated for this new version this spring. The look of the program is different
but the basic behavour hasn't changed. We have added the ability to customize the
format of the data downloaded from the Campbell scientific weather stations. There 
are still some problems downloading data, we are working on fixing them.

If you are using Windows 2000 or XP, GUICS has to be installed by a user with
adminstrative rights. If, after installation, you use the program as a
non-administrative user you might have some problems with the model finding
information about the different crop models that have been installed. This
information is stored in the registry but I still haven't worked out the 
best way to handle the registry information. To see if the registry information
is correct, choose 'Datasets' from the menu. A small dialog box should open
with a drop down list that has the text 'GLYCIM' in it. You should be able 
to select the other models from that list. If the list is blank, the registry 
information was not entered correctly. To fix the registry information go to
 the add/remove programs in control panel and run it as the user you want to
 run GUICS under. Find the entry for GUICS then click on support information.
 You should see a button called 'repair'. This will enter the correct information
 into the registry. 

The confusion arises from the definition of "current_user". If you install
 the program as an administrator, only the administrator has the information
 in the registry. The repair method is a workaround. This is an artifact of some changes
in the software used to develop this program. We used to have an "ini" file and
 the default code to read the same information from the registry
assumes the information is in the Current_user key.

Dennis