UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR





                        GEOLOGICAL SURVEY




          Version 1.0 of NUREVIEW for Windows - A program
             for viewing aerial gamma-ray profile data


                       Joseph S. Duval1 **



                     Open-File Report 97-78



This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity 
with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards and stratigraphic 
nomenclature.  No guarantee are made regarding the usability 
or accuracy of the computer program presented in this report


                         INTRODUCTION

	The program NUREVIEW is a simple program for viewing aerial 
gamma-ray profile data from the National Uranium Resource Evaluation 
(NURE) Program of the Department of Energy.  The NURE Program obtained 
aerial gamma-ray surveys which include data for most of the 
conterminous United States and Alaska.  Most of these data were 
organized into data sets according to quadrangles defined by the 
1:250,000 scale maps of the National Topographic Mapping Series of 
the U.S. Geological Survey.  This computer program allows the user 
to display any one of a number of images of data for the conterminous 
United States and to select a quadrangle for which the flight lines 
may be plotted on the image.  The user can also select a specific 
flight line and plot the profile data for that line.  NUREVIEW is 
designed to be compatible with the data published by Duval (1995).

                          INSTALLATION

	In order to successfully install NUREVIEW, you need to be 
familiar with the Windows operating system for personal computers.  
The disk provided with this Open-File Report contains two self-
extracting archives named NUREVIEW.EXE and MFC250.EXE.  The 
NUREVIEW.EXE archive contains the NUREVIEW program and its 
associated help file and the MFC250.EXE archive contains the 
dynamically linked library required by the program.  The program 
NUREVIEW is designed to run under Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher.  
In order to install this program, you will need to check for the 
existence of the library named MFC250D.DLL under the 
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.  If this library does not exist, you 
need to do the following:

	1.	return to the MS-DOS prompt,
	2.	change the current directory to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM 
                using the DOS command "CD C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM,
        3.      run the command "A:\MFC250D where "A" 
                is assumed to be the drive letter for your floppy 
                disk drive.

	This will place a copy of the file MFC250D.DLL in the 
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.  We recommend that you then do the 
following:

	1.	if the directory C:\USGS does not exist, create 
                it using the DOS command "MKDIR C:\USGS",
	2.	change the current directory to C:\USGS using the 
                DOS command "CD C:\USGS",
        3.      run the command "A:\NUREVIEW" where 
                "A" is assumed to be the drive letter for your 
                floppy disk drive.

	This will place copies of the files NUREVIEW.EXE and 
NUREVIEW.HLP in the C:\USGS directory.

	If you are using Windows 3.x, we recommend that you do 
the following:

	If the program group USGS does not exist, then

	1.	select the File option of the main menu of 
                Program Manager,
	2.	select the New option from the File drop-down menu,
	3.	select Program Group and click on OK,
	4.	select the Description text box and enter "USGS" 
                and click on OK,

	Add the NUREVIEW program to the program group.

	1.	make sure the program group USGS is active by 
                clicking within the program group window,
	2.	select the File option of the main menu of Program 
                Manager,
	3.	select the New option from the File drop-down menu,
	4.	select Program Item and click on OK,
	5.	select the Description text box and enter "NUREVIEW",
	6.	select the Command Line text box and enter 
                "C:\USGS\NUREVIEW.EXE",
	7.	select the Working Directory text box and enter an 
                appropriate directory (e.g. C:\NUREDATA) and click 
                on OK.  If this directory does not already exist, 
                you will need to create it.

	Following the above steps will create a program group named 
USGS and will install NUREVIEW as a member of the program group.  
You can then run NUREVIEW by double clicking on the NUREVIEW icon.  
For information on using NUREVIEW, you should access the help file 
provided with the program.

	If you are using Windows 95, we recommend that you do the 
following:

	1.	using Explorer, navigate to the 
                C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs directory,
	2.	select the File option of the main menu of Explorer,
	3.	select the New option from the drop-down menu of 
                the File option,
	4.	select the Folder option of the drop-down menu of 
                the New option,
	5.	edit the name of the folder and enter 
                "U.S. Geological Survey"

	This results in the creation of a new folder named 
"U.S. Geological Survey".  To install the NUREVIEW program in the 
folder, do the following:

	1.	using Explorer, navigate to the 
                C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\U.S. Geological Survey 
                directory,
	2.	select the File option of the main menu of Explorer,
	3.	select the New option from the drop-down menu of 
                the File option,
	4.	select the Shortcut option of the drop-down menu of 
                the New option,
	5.	select the Command line text box and enter 
                "C:\USGS\NUREVIEW.EXE"

	This results in the creation of a shortcut to the NUREVIEW 
program.  If you want to be able to access the NUREVIEW help file 
directly, you can repeat the above steps and enter 
"C:\USGS\NUREVIEW.HLP" for the command line.  After you have completed
the above, you can run the NUREVIEW program from the Start menu in 
the same manner as other programs.

                              REFERENCES

Duval, J.S., 1995, Profiles of gamma-ray and magnetic data for aerial 
surveys over parts of the western United States from longitude 108 
to 126 degrees W. and from latitude 34 to 49 degrees N.: U.S. 
Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-31, 1 CD-ROM.

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