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Re: [ECS] weather reports made easy (hopefully)... Tom Hutchins Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:18:17 -0500

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Scott,

This is great!!!!!

Only question is, on my system, after downloading the weather file, it
doesn't disconnect. Can you help?

Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Reston" <ih8gates@concentric.net>
To: "ECS List" <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 8:42 AM
Subject: [ECS] weather reports made easy (hopefully)...


> i've put together a script that'll pull down the weather report for any
zip code that weather.com supports...
>
> download from:
> http://www.indelible-blue.com/info/weather.bat
>
> you'll need to have a perl interpreter for windows installed. there's free
one at www.activestate.com. be sure to get the win32 version. their website
seems to
> be down at the moment, so i've *temporarily* put a copy of the perl
install at:
> http://www.indelible-blue.com/info/APi522e.exe
> (it's about a 5.5MB download) try their site before my link as i may
remove the file at any time...
>
> you'll also need to have WPDL.EXE as included with ECS. you may need to
change some paths if you didn't install ECS to "c:\program files", but i've
> marked the part of the code you'll need to fix with "## EDIT AS NECESSARY
##"
>
> i've tried to comment the code so that you can change it if you want. i'm
willing to make minor changes if you'd like the parsing a little different
and aren't up
> to the challenge of interpreting my code...
>
> to run the script, just type "weather.bat XXXXX" where XXXXX is your
zip...
>
> let me know if it works out for you or if you spot any problems...
>
>
> scott reston
> ih8gates@concentric.net
> http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/
>
>
>
>

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