Water Resources Applications Software

BALNINPT

An interactive program for mass-balance calculations (obsolete program--superseded by NETPATH and PHREEQC)

Information

Summary of BALNINPT

Version history

UNIX or DOS installation instructions (README file)

How to order U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation

Software

Selection of the following options preceded by a binary icon retrieves a compressed UNIX tar file or a self-extracting DOS executable. A README file containing installation instructions is included with each of the software distribution files. There are separate README files for the UNIX and DOS distributions.

The Free Software Foundation's gunzip is necessary to uncompress the UNIX tar files available below. However, some World Wide Web browsers automatically uncompress retrieved files. Thus, running gunzip as stated in the installation instructions may be unnecessary.

BALNINPT compiled for...

Data General AViiON (125K)

Sun SPARCstation (Solaris) (77K)

IBM-compatible PC, 386 or higher with math coprocessor (332K)

IBM-compatible PC, 386 or higher with math coprocessor (includes source) (361K)

BALNINPT source code for compilation under...

UNIX (43K)

DOS (189K)

The above software can also be accessed via anonymous FTP from water.usgs.gov in the /pub/software/geochemical/balninpt directory.

Documentation

How to order U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation

Parkhurst, D.L., Plummer, L.N., and Thorstenson, D.C., 1982, BALANCE--a computer program for calculating mass transfer for geochemical reactions in ground water: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 82-14, 29 p.

Point of contact for BALNINPT:

U.S. Geological Survey

Hydrologic Analysis Software Support Program

437 National Center

Reston, VA 20192

(electronic mail: h2osoft@usgs.gov)