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Subject:  Iterative Hot Start File

1.       If the continuity error is due to the lack of a hot start file,

2.       You should make the hot start file iteratively,  or successively Save and Use two hot start files until the initial and final stored volume is about the same in the flow routing continuity table,

3.       1^st Step: Save Hot Start File 1,

4.       2^nd Step: Use Hot Start File 1 and Save Hot Start File 2

5.       3^rd Step: Use Hot Start File 2 and Save Hot Start File 1 and

6.    Repeat until the initial and final storage volume is about the same