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- From: harley@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Harley Hahn,,,HAHN,personal)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Script to get the weather report
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 17:26:50 GMT
- References: <7349@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu> <1993Jan15.142623.19488@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> <1993Jan20.180040.12256@news.eng.convex.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.180040.12256@news.eng.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
- >>Most of the responses used Perl. However, there is a certain
- >>advantage to using a shell script which is what
- >>I have done.
- >
- >But the output is exceedingly unclean, full of prompts and other
- >garbage which you don't have in the perl versionss.
- >
- >--tom
-
- Actually, this is not the case.
-
- The assertion is that the shell script I posted merely
- telnets to the weather server, works it way through the
- menus, and dumps back everything to the user.
-
- Take another look at the shell script. It processes
- the data, stripping out everything that is unnecessary,
- so that the final report is clean as a whistle (to coin
- a phrase).
-
- -- Harley Hahn
-