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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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