weather from shell

[Steve Holmes]

I just used it tonight.  Though I recall opening up a telnet session
manually to the same site, forgetting the port number and got same
results.  So I'm not sure what port 3000 does that isn't readily available
to normal telnet users.

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> The last time I checked, port 3000 on rainmaker.wunderground.com is no longer available.
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:22:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > With Slackware, the games has an expect script called 'weather' it in turn
> > telnets to rainmaker.wunderground.com port 3000.  Be to have expect
> > installed from the tcl series or this script won't run.
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Here is a script I use. I call it 'wxw'.
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > lynx http://braille.wunderground.com/
> > >
> > > I guess I might as well have made it an alias instead of a
> > > script.
> > > Chuck
> > >
> > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi.  I know this was discussed before however I can't find it in the
> > > > archives by searching for the subject keyword "weather".
> > > >
> > > > How can I find weather tempratures and forcasts from the shell?  Is
> > > > there a text program I can install or is there a service I can telnet
> > > > into to find out/
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
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