the Weather Script

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Greg,
Most of the universities like Michigan that get their weather
information do it through a service called "Family of Services".  This
is not free.  However, you could simulate what the Weather Underground
does by extracting the weather data from various web pages.  What you
would need to do is to first strip all of the HTML and just leave
text.Then do the telnet server.

      Jim Wantz
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Is there a way to get a copy of that
> program they use on the weather underground telnet session?
> It would be kind of cool to do that directly from one's
> own box instead of having to telnet over there.
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:59:44PM -0700, Holmes, Steve wrote:
> > Yes I found it on my slackware 8.0 machines also.  I originally looked for
> > it on one of my machines which had slackware 4.0 or 7.0 (can't remember for
> > sure) and no expect nor weather found there.  Actually, it is fun to go in
> > with the raw telnet session into the weather underground site and play
> > around with the menu.  I think I could build some cool weather CGI scripts
> > for my web site:).  Need to figure out how to interface telnet with perl soI
> > could come up with some clever perl scripts to jazz up the weather displays.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Hallenbeck [mailto:chuckh at mhonline.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 3:41 PM
> > To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
> > Subject: RE: the Weather Script
> >
> >
> > It was a default install on my Slackware 7.1 distribution also.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >
> > > Dunna know. RH just installed it. It's a default install on RH.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Holmes, Steve wrote:
> > >
> > > > Do you have to own both expect and weather? I never saw a package like
> > that
> > > > for Slackware.  If it is required for the script to work, I wonder where
> > I
> > > > could find the base version for it (source...).
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina at afb.net]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 1:25 PM
> > > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > Subject: Re: the Weather Script
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes, seems so -- /usr/bin/expect
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > You need to have the expect package installed to get the weather
> > script.
> > > > > I don't know if it's known by the same name in redhat.
> > > > > Greg
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:34:41AM -0400, jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Janina,
> > > > > > I don't have a copy of the weather script with Redhat 7.1--at least
> > I
> > > > > > haven't been able to find it.  I'm surprised that the Weather
> > > > Underground
> > > > > > still supports telnet.  I used to run weather on a Sun back in 1993.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >      Jim Wantz
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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