Weather Programs For Linux

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Tue Sep 18 23:03:43 EDT 2001


Thanks, it sounds like there is a weatherbug replacement after all.
Greg


On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 06:23:48PM -0500, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Why, yes there is. Only problem is...the weather server is wrong. At
> least, it was in the last one I saw and I had to change it.
> 
> The weather script should install with the expect package...so you
> have to install expect, and you'll have a script called weather that
> telnets to the Weather Underground and pulls a forecast for the
> default city. Or you can type weather followed by a three-letter city
> code (like, say, DFW) to get a forecast for another city.
> 
> If you install expect and your weather script doesn't work, let me
> know and I'll send you mine. The only relevant changes though will be
> the weather server (which you'll want to change to
> rainmaker.wunderground.com instead of the name that's there--leave the
> 3000 alone...) Well, there's that, and you'll probably want to change
> the default city (MDC) to whatever your city is. Other than
> that...well, that's it, really.
> -- 
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