<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Hi Dwight:</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">If things screw up, you ALWAYS have that DD <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>Wizard version to go back to, even if to make another copy, convert to Detail Edit and "try, try again."</div>
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<div class=yiv0184297136MsoNormal>Hello,</div>
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<div class=yiv0184297136MsoNormal>I’m new to the Detailed Design wizard and I am wondering what files EQUEST reads inputs from when it starts up. I have been playing around with my model trying to get a few things to work. It is my understanding that I can go into the BDL file or the INP and modify they and the changes will show up when I open up the file in EQUEST. To this point nothing I have changed has been reflected. Is my perspective on this modeling technique wrong?</div>
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<div class=yiv0184297136MsoNormal>Thanks,</div>
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<div class=yiv0184297136MsoNormal>Dwight Pederson</div>
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