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What's new in recent releases of Weather Board
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12/15/95 : v. 1.49
Changed the local forecast code from FP1 to FP to handle a new version
of Weathermation.
11/15/94 : v. 1.48
*** New config line (21). Be sure to add it if you are upgrading from
any previous version!
Added support for drive and path info on the input and output weather
files. Also added screen & log messages to tell you where the output
files are, and what they are named. Now, if you have a ramdisk, and
you want to edit the files on that drive to increase the speed of the
program, or you just feel like putting the files on some other drive,
you can do it. This requires line 21 in WB.CFG, which specifies either
NONE to use the current directory, or the complete drive and path WITH
the trailing slash!
Examples: E:\JOE\
F:\
If you enable this option, be sure to edit the copy statements in Z.BAT
or Z.CMD so they will pick up the relocated files!
11/10/94 : v. 1.47
Increased the minumum number of lines for a complete forecast from 8 to
12. Sometimes, incomplete zone forecasts were being produced as
complete ones.
Added connection time and date messages on screen and in the log. This
tells you when the connection to Weathermation started and stopped.
Now you can track your connect time and phone costs.
Added log & screen messages that tell you when the shareware version of
the program will expire. This acutally made it into 1.46 when I
updated the expiration logic on November 1, but now its official! (g)
10/01/94 : v. 1.46
*** New config line (20). Be sure to add it if you are upgrading from
any previous version!
Added the option to allow WB to bypass updating your BBS bulletins if
the zone forecast number you requested was not found. WB can return
an errorlevel 2 based on how you set this option. Your batch file will
need to be modified accordingly.
Enhanced the Zone Forecast search routine so that it will find a zone
number even if the number is imbedded in a group of zone numbers.
Added code to send an ATZ to the modem at program startup if you
specifiy an init string in the config file. This should lessen the
"unexpected response" messages caused by some modems.
Added editing code to check for duplicate zone numbers in the same line
of input text. This should put a stop to duplicate reports when there
is a case where something like ILZ001 and INZ001 appear in the same
line.
Removed the Configuration Settings from the main program screen to get
some more room for the program messages. The complete config setup is
still available in the log header, if you need to see it.
Added code to handle Illinois zone forecasts. It looks like they have a
similar problem to Michigan. I hope this doesn't become widespread.
Changed the documentation. I broke out the Weathermation numbers and
the city codes into their own files.
9/01/94 : v. 1.45
Streamlined the code that captures the Weathermation file. This has
eliminated Device Timeout errors on my systems that occured when
Weather Board was running in the background under a multitasker.
Hopefully, it will cure such problems on all systems.
Added code to handle Michigan zone forecasts. It seems that they got
changed from MI to DTX for a state code! Anyway, they're back in
business untill somebody out there does something ELSE stupid.
7/29/94 : v. 1.44
Removed the code that bypasses the county list in the Zone Forecast
output listing. It was biting me at every turn, causing bogus
"incomplete forecast" messages. This was due to the fact that not all
weather stations use the phrase "including the cities of..." in their
forecast bulletins. So, now, the county list will appear in output
listings wherever it is used.
7/21/94 : v. 1.43
Added even more Zone Forecast code. This release contains the "New York
City" fix. It allows large cities that have different neighborhoods
defined as zones to be picked up by Weahter Board. You do this by using
the three letter city code with a zone number, instead of the two
letter state code.
Found and fixed a couple of editor bugs, having to do with things
inside parens. I'll probably be fixing lower case stuff untill my dying
day. (g)
What happened to 1.42? Well, let's just say the test results were
underwhelming, and leave it at that...
7/04/94 : v. 1.41
Well, it never fails. Added more Zone Forecast code to hanlde a
condition where the NWS control codes matched the zone number that WB
was looking for. This produced multiple zones in the output file.
Enhanced the editor to remove the county listings from zone forecast
ouput. Now, if the program finds your specified zone, it will produce
the usual header info, skip the county list, and start again with the
"Including the citys of..." line. This makes small, neat looking
reports. Note that if WB doesn't find your zone, or if you put the
ALL keyword in line 19 of WB.CFG, you will still get the county lines
in the output. This is because I don't know exactly what you're looking
for under these conditions, so you get everything.
Increased the program stack space to maximum in an attempt to stop
"stack overflow" errors on a few systems.
7/01/94 : v. 1.40
Here's the first whack at Zone Forecasts. There is a new line in
WB.CFG to handle this. Be sure to add it. See the new appendix in the
docs for details on implementing this feature. Its a bit of a kludge,
but so is the way the NWS does it. Sorry about that.
A few more editor enhancements were adeed that didn't make it into
1.39. Also, the date and time were added to the Special Weather
Statement.
6/09/94 : v. 1.39
Various editing enhancements. Also, some internal changes were made to
get ready for the next release, which will handle Zone Forecasts.
5/28/94 : v. 1.38
Both Versions:
Figured out a new way to get around the Weathermation prompt display
bug. Now one Weather Board program will handle both old and new
versions of Weathermation. I had to eliminate 300 baud calls in the
process however. They were just too slow to get the job done. Now,
the program waits 30 seconds to see the Weathermation prompt. If it
doesn't, it tries to force the prompt. If another 30 seconds goes by,
the program assumes that its not connected to a Weathermation site and
terminates the call. Various screen / log messages were added or
changed in support of this.
Added notification for frost and freeze conditions to the Special
Weather Statement. Now you'll get a "heads up" so you can protect
those tender plants!
OS/2:
Wrote a Basic timer routine to take the place of the TIMER function,
which doesn't work in OS/2. Now when the program says its going to
wait 30 seconds before it does something, it really should wait that
long, no matter what CPU speed you have.
5/05/94 : v. 1.37
Added a new feature (finally!). Weather Board will now scan the local
forecast file for indications of severe weather or flooding. If it
finds something like that, it will produce a "Special Weather
Statement" informing your users that severe weather or a warning, watch
or advisory exists for your area. The file is called BADWEATH.TXT, and
you can put it in a logon screen to alert your users to read the full
forecast. Messages are included on screen and in the log to show that
the file was created. If severe weather doesn't exist in your area,
the file will not be produced. See the sample Z.BAT or Z.CMD file for
a way to implement this feature.
5/01/94 : v. 1.36
Changed the partial / non existing forecast code a little. The program
is supposed to produce whatever it can get in these cases, but was
exiting with error 5 instead on the state forecast. Added a new
message to tell the Sysop to check the output files for valid info if
this condition arises.
Fixed the Full Edit on the month of May. Now the routine can tell the
difference between stuff like "may 15" and "may be severe".
Capitalization of "may" will / won't happen as is appropriate.
3/01/94 : v. 1.35
Chaned the code a bit to try to eliminate string space problems on one
system. Tightened the editing of the forecaster's name(s) in the
output. Included the "helper" version of the program in the archives
for use with older versions of Weathermation software. Updated the
documentation on both the Dos and OS/2 versions. Updated the Shareware
expire date to 5/1/94.
1/02/94 : v. 1.34
Fixed an obscure logic bug in the error routine. If a second error was
encountered while the program was already processing an error, the
error routine would go into a loop.