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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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