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[ECS] weather reports made easy (hopefully)... -Reply Brad Chamberlain Tue, 22 Feb 2000 08:42:56 -0500

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Scott,

I wanted to thank you for this excellent little script. It worked like a champ
right out of the box.

Thanks,

Brad

>>> "Scott Reston" <ih8gates@concentric.net> 02/18/00 08:42am >>>
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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