O T weather underground

O T weather underground

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

Hi List,
Sorry for the off-topic item,
But about a month ago or so, someone resent me the link to the weather
underground, and that useful link is on another hard drive.
I would sure appreciate it if he could send it my way again.
Thanks.

Glenn.


Glenn
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Re: O T weather underground

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Glen:

I'm sure you won't mind getting the URL from a gal:

http://braille.wunderground.com

Enjoy!

Glenn Ervin at Home writes:
> From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
> 
> Hi List,
> Sorry for the off-topic item,
> But about a month ago or so, someone resent me the link to the weather
> underground, and that useful link is on another hard drive.
> I would sure appreciate it if he could send it my way again.
> Thanks.
> 
> Glenn.
> 
> 
> Glenn
> N0YJV  GlennErvin@cableone.net
> Work:  gErvin@NCBvi.state.ne.us
> 
> 
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Re: O T weather underground

[Glenn Ervin at Home]

And what a fine gal.
thanks Janina.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen
review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: O T weather underground


Hi, Glen:

I'm sure you won't mind getting the URL from a gal:

http://braille.wunderground.com

Enjoy!

Glenn Ervin at Home writes:
> From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin@cableone.net>
>
> Hi List,
> Sorry for the off-topic item,
> But about a month ago or so, someone resent me the link to the weather
> underground, and that useful link is on another hard drive.
> I would sure appreciate it if he could send it my way again.
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn.
>
>
> Glenn
> N0YJV  GlennErvin@cableone.net
> Work:  gErvin@NCBvi.state.ne.us
>
>
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Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175

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Re: O T weather underground

[Lorenzo Prince]

Thanks for the link.  That's much better than the weather script.

PRINCE

Re: O T weather underground

[Cheryl Homiak]

What a cool link!!!
thanks--even though I wasn't the one to ask for it, I get the benefit!!!



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Re: O T weather underground

[Dan Murphy]

Yeah it's quite nice.  I've been using the telnet site for many years.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@charter.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: O T weather underground


What a cool link!!!
thanks--even though I wasn't the one to ask for it, I get the benefit!!!



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Re: O T weather underground

[Alex Snow]

I tried telnetting there a few weeks ago but all the forcasts and 
stuff seemed really old. like from 2001 or something.
On Sat, Jan 31, 
2004 at 09:01:07PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Yeah it's quite nice.  I've been using the telnet site for many years.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@charter.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 8:52 PM
> Subject: Re: O T weather underground
> 
> 
> What a cool link!!!
> thanks--even though I wasn't the one to ask for it, I get the benefit!!!
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl
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Re: O T weather underground

[Janina Sajka]

Strange. I use the telnet service all the time. The forecasts are
current, within the hour, usually.


Alex Snow writes:
> From: Alex Snow <alex_snow@gmx.net>
> 
> I tried telnetting there a few weeks ago but all the forcasts and 
> stuff seemed really old. like from 2001 or something.

Re: O T weather underground

[Cheryl Homiak]

Hmm, no weather command on debian unstable.
And don't try the weather package on debian; it's some kind of interactive
story. However, try miscfiles package if you want three-letter airport
codes and other interesting stuff.
If anybody does find the equivalent in debian for weather, I'd be
interested.
apt-cache search brought up some candidates but they looked graphical.
anyway, the wunderground site is nice.




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Re: O T weather underground

[Buddy Brannan]

There is a weather script in expect. Errmm...in debian, it'll either be in expect or expect-dev, I suspect. Anyway, if anyone wants it, I have it, and it still works fine.
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Re: O T weather underground

[Janina Sajka]

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Weather is just a script. I've attached it. No idea whether or not it
will just run in your environment, of course.

Cheryl Homiak writes:
> From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@charter.net>
> 
> Hmm, no weather command on debian unstable.
> And don't try the weather package on debian; it's some kind of interactive
> story. However, try miscfiles package if you want three-letter airport
> codes and other interesting stuff.
> If anybody does find the equivalent in debian for weather, I'd be
> interested.
> apt-cache search brought up some candidates but they looked graphical.
> anyway, the wunderground site is nice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Chair, Accessibility Work Group
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#!/bin/sh
# \
exec expect -f "$0" ${1+"$@"}

# weather - Expect script to get the weather (courtesy University of Michigan)
# Don Libes
# Version 1.10

# local weather is retrieved if no argument
# argument is the National Weather Service designation for an area
# I.e., WBC = Washington DC (oh yeah, that's obvious)

# Notes from Larry Virden <lvirden@yahoo.com> about the new host,
# rainmaker.wunderground.com: "[the] new site requires the
# machine doing the request be located in reverse dns lookup
# or it refuses to provide data."  This appears to be a blind error
# condition on the part of rainmaker.

exp_version -exit 5.0

if {$argc>0} {set code $argv} else {set code "WBC"}

proc timedout {} {
	send_user "Weather server timed out.  Try again later when weather server is not so busy.\n"
	exit 1
}

set timeout 60

set env(TERM) vt100	;# actual value doesn't matter, just has to be set

spawn telnet rainmaker.wunderground.com 3000
while {1} {
	expect timeout {
		send_user "failed to contact weather server\n"
		exit
	} "Press Return to continue*" {
               # this prompt used sometimes, eg, upon opening connection
               send "\r"
	} "Press Return for menu*" {
               # this prompt used sometimes, eg, upon opening connection
               send "\r"
	} "M to display main menu*" {
		# sometimes ask this if there is a weather watch in effect
		send "M\r"
	} "Change scrolling to screen*Selection:" {
		break
	} eof {
		send_user "failed to telnet to weather server\n"
		exit
	}
}
send "C\r"
expect timeout timedout "Selection:"
send "4\r"
expect timeout timedout "Selection:"
send "1\r"
expect timeout timedout "Selection:"
send "1\r"
expect timeout timedout "city code:"
send "$code\r"
expect $code		;# discard this

while {1} {
	expect timeout {
		timedout
	} "Press Return to continue*:*" {
		send "\r"
	} "Press Return to display statement, M for menu:*" {
		send "\r"
	} -re "(.*)CITY FORECAST MENU.*Selection:" {
		break
	}
}

send "X\r"
expect

Re: O T weather underground

[Lorenzo Prince]

The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:
> Hmm, no weather command on debian unstable.

It should be part of the "expect" package.  Expect should be there since it is
apparently required by I think tcl or something like that.  Try 

apt-cache search expect

or

apt-cache search tcl

OK.  I just looked at expect and it says it is a tcl application that allows a
script to interact with other programs.  The package includes the expect app and
"some scripts that use it."

HTH
PRINCE

Re: O T weather underground

[Lorenzo Prince]

The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:
> But about a month ago or so, someone resent me the link to the weather
> underground, and that useful link is on another hard drive.

Sorry that I don't have the link to the web site, but if at the command prompt
you type

weather <city code>

where <city code> is the 3-letter code for your nearest airport, you can get the
forcast printed directly to your screen and you can pipe it through less or to a
file.  Of course that depends on your distro, but I think it's part of tcl or
something.  Actually, I'm not really sure what package it's in, but I know both
Slackware and RH have it.  And if they do, Debian has to have it, as it has more
packages than anything else.

HTH
PRINCE

Re: O T weather underground

[Alex Snow]

It's www.wunderground.com
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:55:08PM -0600, Glenn 
Ervin at Home wrote:
> Hi List,
> Sorry for the off-topic item,
> But about a month ago or so, someone resent me the link to the weather
> underground, and that useful link is on another hard drive.
> I would sure appreciate it if he could send it my way again.
> Thanks.
> 
> Glenn.
> 
> 
> Glenn
> N0YJV  GlennErvin@cableone.net
> Work:  gErvin@NCBvi.state.ne.us
> 
> 
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Re: O T weather underground

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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Here is a weather script I us.  Works real nice.  I just type at a 
prompt for example:

wxw 80222

And I get the weather for Denver Colorado.

Script follows:

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$#" -lt "1" -o "$#" -gt "2" ] ;then
	echo "Usage: wxw zip or wxw cityname."
	echo "Example: wxw 66212 or wxw Overland Park"
	exit 1
fi

if [ "$#" -eq "1" ] ;then
	QUERY="$1"
	else
	QUERY="$1+$2"
fi

lynx "http://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=$QUERY"

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Re: O T weather underground

[Lorenzo Prince]

The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:
> Here is a weather script I us.  Works real nice. 
<snip>

Thanks for the script.  That works a lot better than my weather alias I used to
ust.  The alias used the weather tcl script and had to run it through dos2unix
and finally less to get it to look presentable.  Then I had to press space twice
just to get to the forcast.  This makes things much easier on me and my system. ;-)

PRINCE

Re: O T weather underground

[Janina Sajka]

Nice script, Raul. May I recommend:

lynx -dump -nostatus


Raul A. Gallegos writes:
> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
> 
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> Here is a weather script I us.  Works real nice.  I just type at a 
> prompt for example:
> 
> wxw 80222
> 
> And I get the weather for Denver Colorado.
> 
> Script follows:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> if [ "$#" -lt "1" -o "$#" -gt "2" ] ;then
> 	echo "Usage: wxw zip or wxw cityname."
> 	echo "Example: wxw 66212 or wxw Overland Park"
> 	exit 1
> fi
> 
> if [ "$#" -eq "1" ] ;then
> 	QUERY="$1"
> 	else
> 	QUERY="$1+$2"
> fi
> 
> lynx "http://braille.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=$QUERY"
> 
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Re: O T weather underground

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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Janina Sajka said the following on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:53:30AM -0500:
> Nice script, Raul. May I recommend:
> lynx -dump -nostatus

Thanks.  I think I got the original idea from this list or from blinux. 
 Can't remember though.

Only thing about adding your suggestion is I'd have to pipe it to more 
or grep out certain information.  Is this why you suggested it?  I just 
want to make sure I see where you are coming from.

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Re: O T weather underground

[Janina Sajka]

Hmmm, pardon me for forgettn that I use a large screen configuration --
64 rows and 175 chars. Yes, you'd have to pipe to more -- but it's only
a suggestion.

I like the -dump because for me the idea is to get the weather, and not
necessarily to start surfing the web.

And, the -nostatus turns off all those contacting/loading messages while
the data is being received.

I guess if I think about it harder, I would be inclined to chop off
everything beginning with the copyright statement. But, that's just me.


Raul A. Gallegos writes:
> From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
> 
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> Janina Sajka said the following on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:53:30AM -0500:
> > Nice script, Raul. May I recommend:
> > lynx -dump -nostatus
> 
> Thanks.  I think I got the original idea from this list or from blinux. 
>  Can't remember though.
> 
> Only thing about adding your suggestion is I'd have to pipe it to more 
> or grep out certain information.  Is this why you suggested it?  I just 
> want to make sure I see where you are coming from.
> 
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O T weather underground

[Ann Parsons]

Hi all,

http://braille.wunderground.com

Ann P.

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