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1.1 ! root 1: .TH AVW 7 purdy ! 2: .CT 1 inst_info ! 3: .SH NAME ! 4: w, fp, ft, fd, rad \(mi aviation weather ! 5: .SH SYNOPSIS ! 6: .B /usr/ken/bin/w ! 7: [ ! 8: .I station ... ! 9: ] ! 10: .PP ! 11: .B /usr/ken/bin/fp ! 12: [ ! 13: .I obj ... ! 14: ] ! 15: .PP ! 16: .B /usr/ken/bin/ft ! 17: [ ! 18: .I obj ... ! 19: ] ! 20: .PP ! 21: .B /usr/ken/bin/fd ! 22: [ ! 23: .I obj ... ! 24: ] ! 25: .PP ! 26: .B /usr/ken/bin/rad ! 27: .SH DESCRIPTION ! 28: .I W ! 29: looks up each of its arguments in a set of ! 30: weather files. ! 31: The weather files are constantly maintained by ! 32: a daemon that reads the National Weather Service ! 33: Wire. ! 34: If ! 35: .I w ! 36: is called with no arguments, ! 37: it reads the standard input and looks up each line. ! 38: .PP ! 39: The active weather files are: ! 40: .TP ! 41: .B AA ! 42: airport name and runway direction and length ! 43: .PD0 ! 44: .TP ! 45: .B NT ! 46: NOTAM \(mi Notices to Airmen \(mi special cautions at airports ! 47: .TP ! 48: .B FT ! 49: 24-hour terminal forcasts at airports issued three times a day ! 50: .TP ! 51: .B SA ! 52: hourly surface observations taken at airports ! 53: .TP ! 54: .B FD ! 55: daily winds aloft forcasts taken at certain reporting points ! 56: .TP ! 57: .B FP ! 58: daily area forcasts taken at certain reporting points ! 59: .TP ! 60: .B SD ! 61: hourly radar precipitation taken at certain reporting points ! 62: .PD ! 63: .PP ! 64: If ! 65: .I w ! 66: is given an airport name, ! 67: it will print the latest AA, ! 68: NT, ! 69: FT, ! 70: and SA data. ! 71: The other files are printed by providing the reporting point name. ! 72: In most cases this is a meaningless string of characters that are ! 73: supplied by other programs. ! 74: .PP ! 75: .I Fp ! 76: takes a series of navagation stations as arguments; ! 77: see ! 78: .IR av (A) ! 79: for a description of these objects. ! 80: If ! 81: .I fp ! 82: has no argument, ! 83: it uses the default ! 84: .L here ! 85: which specifies Murray Hill, NJ. ! 86: If ! 87: .I fp ! 88: is given one argument, ! 89: it will print the name of the nearest ! 90: FP (area forecast) station to the argument. ! 91: If ! 92: .I fp ! 93: is given two arguments, ! 94: it will print the names of all FP ! 95: stations that are nearest to some point ! 96: on the great circle route between the objects. ! 97: If more than two arguments are given ! 98: then the stations are printed for each pair of arguments. ! 99: The output of ! 100: .I fp ! 101: is meant to be piped into ! 102: .IR w . ! 103: .PP ! 104: .I Ft ! 105: and ! 106: .I fd ! 107: behave the same as ! 108: .I fp ! 109: but print the station names reporting ! 110: winds aloft and terminal forcasts respectively. ! 111: .PP ! 112: .I Rad ! 113: creates a radar summary weather map and ! 114: prints the map on the laser printer. ! 115: .SH FILES ! 116: .TF /usr/ken/lib/obj ! 117: .TP ! 118: .F /usr/weather/* ! 119: weather files ! 120: .TP ! 121: .F /usr/ken/lib/obj ! 122: navigation aids ! 123: .TP ! 124: .F /usr/weather/rd ! 125: weather wire daemon ! 126: .SH SEE ALSO ! 127: .IR av (7)
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