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- FORECAST v.0.3
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- (c) 1995 Admiral Insights
- in Cooperation with Anthill Industries
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-
- A Tool for getting the current weather conditions for almost any
- major city in North America.
-
- Requirements:
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- STiK must be installed, enabled and connected to use Forecast.
- Forecast should work in any planar video mode (2,4,16,256 colors)
- It does not work in 16bit color mode. (High Color Mode on the F030)
- A resolution higher that ST Low is also recommended, but not required.
- A small knowledge of airport codes.
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- Use:
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- FORECAST utilizes the weather server system available in North
- America. As far as we know, Europe does not use this system. If anyone
- has information to the contrary of this please let us know and we will
- include support for europe in a future version.
-
- To get weather for your city (in North America) or any other major
- city in North America, press 'Control O'. This brings up the open dialog,
- now hit the 'Esc' key to clear the info line (if necessary) and enter in
- the three letter code for the airport closest to the city you want the
- weather for. A few example codes are 'cmh' for Columbus Ohio and 'lax' for
- Los Angeles California. Not all airports are on this system, so you may
- have to try a different airport to get weather for your area.
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- If the airport code is valid, then the window will update to show temp
- (fahrenheit), barometer, wind speed and humidity. This information is both
- displayed graphically and in text (at the bottom of the window).
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- FORECAST always remembers the last city you for which you requested
- the weather. It saves this info in the 'FORECAST.PRF' file. The user
- never needs to do anything with this file, FORECAST handles it's
- management. So when ever you use FORECAST the last city you requested,
- will be in the open dialog, if this is the city you want the info for then
- just hit return.
-
- To exit the program either click the closer on the window, select
- 'Quit' from the 'File' menu or press the 'Control Q' keys.
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- Hot Keys:
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- 'Tab' - Brings up the about box.
- 'Control O' - Brings up the Open box.
- 'Help' - Brings up the Help box.
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- Possible Problems:
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- On some systems, when you select 'Help' the program crashes. We
- haven't figured this one out yet. Since it works fine on other system
- which are comparably the same. So if this happens to you, hopefully we
- will get it fixed in the future, but this seems to be the only bug in
- operation.
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- Credits:
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- This program was created by Jim Baumgardner and Dan Ackerman. We both
- use Falcons and Lattice C.
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- This version FREEWARE.
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- If you have any comments, suggestions or Bug reports, we can be reached at
- either:
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- jbaumgar@bronze.coil.com Jim Baumgardner
-
- or
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- baldrick@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu Dan Ackerman
- or ackerman.29@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu
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- Keep your eyes open for more STiK tools from us.
-