Set QUIP_ARCH environment variable
  export QUIP_ARCH=your_quip_arch # for sh/bash
or
  setenv QUIP_ARCH your_quip_arch # for csh/tcsh

Set QUIP_ROOT environment variable to the path to your top level QUIP 
  source directory (where the QUIP_Core/, structures/, etc., subdirectories are)

Create executables (do this in $QUIP_ROOT)
  make QUIP_Programs/NRL_TB_to_xml

Fix TBMD format input file (let's call it nrl_tb_param_file), as downloaded
  from http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/bind by adding after each atomic mass 
  the atomic number for that element

Create XML format NRL-TB parameter file for QUIP
  ${QUIP_ROOT}/build.${QUIP_ARCH}/NRL_TB_to_xml tightbind.parms.NRL_TB.element_name.xml < nrl_tb_param_file
