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1.1       root        1: .TH WX 7
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: wx - get weather information
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B wx
                      6: [
                      7: .B -cemnoOs
                      8: ]
                      9: [
                     10: .B -a
                     11: .I state
                     12: ]
                     13: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     14: .I Wx
                     15: writes the local (greater New York and Philadelphia)
                     16: weather forecast.
                     17: .PP
                     18: The following options are available:
                     19: .TP 15
                     20: .B \-e
                     21: Print only the extended forecasts.
                     22: .TP 15
                     23: .B \-m
                     24: Print the marine weather and forecast,
                     25: which gives coastal and offshore information
                     26: (winds, tides, wave heights, visibilities, etc.)
                     27: for an area from Watch Hill, R.I. to Manasquan,
                     28: N.J.
                     29: .TP 15
                     30: .B \-c
                     31: Print a summary of temperatures and weather
                     32: for selected U.S. cities.
                     33: .TP 15
                     34: .B \-n
                     35: Print the national weather summary.
                     36: .TP 15
                     37: .B \-s
                     38: Print ski conditions
                     39: for New York and New England.
                     40: .TP 15
                     41: .B \-oO
                     42: Print the previous
                     43: .B (-o)
                     44: and oldest avalable
                     45: .B (-O)
                     46: national weather summaries.
                     47: .TP 15
                     48: \fB \-a\fI state \fR
                     49: (where
                     50: .I state
                     51: is a two-letter, lower case
                     52: state abbreviation)  Print (cat) an
                     53: area forecast (if available) for any state requested
                     54: in the continental U.S.; e.g.
                     55: .I
                     56: wx -a mi
                     57: will print the state forecast for Michigan.
                     58: The required 2-letter abbreviation for any
                     59: state may be found by typing,
                     60: .I
                     61: wx -a ?.
                     62: .PP
                     63: Except for
                     64: .I
                     65: wx -a,
                     66: all information is printed under the
                     67: .I
                     68: p
                     69: command.
                     70: For details of
                     71: .I p,
                     72: refer to the manual page.
                     73: .SH FILES
                     74: .TP 30
                     75: /usr/lbin/wx
                     76: .TP 30
                     77: /usr/pub/weather/*
                     78: weather and forecast files, updated daily
                     79: .SH BUGS
                     80: What comes out is
                     81: only as good as
                     82: what went in.  If the
                     83: information you are
                     84: requesting was not sent
                     85: over the weather line, you
                     86: will get no meaningful output.
                     87: If information over the line
                     88: came in with faulty separator
                     89: codes, you will get strange,
                     90: often cryptic, output.

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