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