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