X-Git-Url: https://www.yuggoth.org/gitweb?p=weather.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=FAQ;h=d8cc569703b3a3d83fe00fa0605dc3177fddb086;hp=ce7f213c8040ba53502b4d60d9279f1286805913;hb=8349654b7c627448b1e56c2943234895724d7857;hpb=eb249a0ae2f1644a67d6231b7cddf292058080e7 diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index ce7f213..d8cc569 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEATHER UTILITY -Copyright (c) 2006 Jeremy Stanley , all rights reserved. -Licensed per terms in the LICENSE file distributed with this software. +Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Jeremy Stanley . +Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software is +granted under terms provided in the LICENSE file distributed with +this software. Table of Contents: @@ -44,8 +46,10 @@ state abbreviation to get to a list of cities in that state). 4. I live outside the USA--can this be made to work for me anyway? -If you have any recommendations for similar forecast data in -other countries, I will be happy to try and find a way to +METAR station IDs can be found for cities and airports worldwide, +but forecast data is harder to come by. If you have any +recommendations of forecast data for other countries available in a +format like NOAA's, I will be happy to try and find a way to integrate it into the weather utility, but I suspect that some serious modification would be necessary given that the data is likely to be published in a non-English language, requiring some @@ -59,10 +63,9 @@ The -i or --id switch (or the id parameter in an alias definition), only tells weather(1) what current conditions to retrieve. If you specify -f or --forecast on the command line (or forecast=True in an alias) without providing a city name and state abbreviation -(-c/--city and -s/--st, or city and st in an alias), you will -instead see the forecast for the built-in default location (or the -city and st defined in the default alias, if you have one). See -question 3 above for information on figuring out what city name and -state abbreviation to use, and the manual for weatherrc(5) for -information on defining aliases. - +(-c/--city and -s/--st, or city and st in an alias) and are seeing +an actual forecast, then you probably have a default city and state +abbreviation set in your config. See question 3 above for +information on figuring out what city name and state abbreviation +to use, and the manual for weatherrc(5) for information on defining +aliases.