I think the port address had meaning once. This site has provided this weather service for well over a decade. On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > I just used it tonight. Though I recall opening up a telnet session > manually to the same site, forgetting the port number and got same > results. So I'm not sure what port 3000 does that isn't readily available > to normal telnet users. > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > The last time I checked, port 3000 on rainmaker.wunderground.com is no longer available. > > Greg > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:22:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > With Slackware, the games has an expect script called 'weather' it in turn > > > telnets to rainmaker.wunderground.com port 3000. Be to have expect > > > installed from the tcl series or this script won't run. > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > > > > Here is a script I use. I call it 'wxw'. > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > lynx http://braille.wunderground.com/ > > > > > > > > I guess I might as well have made it an alias instead of a > > > > script. > > > > Chuck > > > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi. I know this was discussed before however I can't find it in the > > > > > archives by searching for the subject keyword "weather". > > > > > > > > > > How can I find weather tempratures and forcasts from the shell? Is > > > > > there a text program I can install or is there a service I can telnet > > > > > into to find out/ > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > -- > > > > > If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real > > > > > good, you will get out of it. > > > > > Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (91% of Full) > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
