weather from shell

[Janina Sajka]

I think the port address had meaning once. This site has provided this 
weather service for well over a decade.

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:

> 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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