weather from shell

[Janina Sajka]

Maybe you should try telnet to the ip address directly?

:[root at toccata 12:47:10] etc#:
:[root at toccata 12:47:15] etc#:w
Trying 66.28.69.161...
Connected to rainmaker.wunderground.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> I just tried telneting to rainmaker.wunderground.com on the standard telnet port, and it doesn't work. What I mean is that I could get in unlike before, but whenever I enter a city code, ask for a list of valid city codes, or ask for a valid list of state codes, it says something like network is down. This was yesterday, and today the telnet session simply times out. However, the web interface works grate.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:14:31PM -0700, 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.
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > If you are good, you will be assigned all the work.  If you are real
> > > > > > good, you will get out of it.
> > > > > > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net
> > > > > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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