Felix,
Thanks for the feedback. I just added your comments on our list of things to do in the NWTC Library. It is interesting that opening ‘CONOUT$’ in SUBROUTINE OpenCon() actually created a text file for you–we had originally added ‘CONOUT$’ so that it wouldn’t create a text file for us. We will have to look into that more, I guess.
If you want, you could also remove the lines in FAST_IO.f90’s SUBROUTINE SimStatus() where it calls the SUBROUTINE WrOvr(). It won’t display any of the “Timestep: x of 660s” lines, so it should run a little faster.