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- This command-line utility is intended to provide quick access to
- current weather conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is capable
- of returning data for localities throughout the USA by retrieving
- and formatting decoded METARs (Meteorological Aerodrome Reports)
- from NOAA (the USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
- and forecasts from NWS (the USA National Weather Service). The tool
- is written to function in the same spirit as other command-line
- informational utilities like cal(1), calendar(1) and dict(1). It can
- retrieve arbitrary weather data via specific command-line switches
- (station ID, city, state), or aliases can be configured system wide
- and on a per-user basis. It can be freely used and redistributed
- under the terms of a BSD-like License.
- *SPECIAL NOTE*
- This will copy the existing "/usr/bin/weather" script on the
- system (which is part of the "expect" package in Slackware) to
- "/usr/bin/weather.expect" while installing the one in this package
- as "/usr/bin/weather.weather" and creating a symlink to it from
- /usr/bin/weather. If you remove this package later for whatever
- reason, then you will need to either reinstall Slackware's "expect"
- package, fix the symlink, or remove the symlink and rename the
- "/usr/bin/weather.expect" file back to "/usr/bin/weather"
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