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- Subject: Re: Weather maps ftp'able
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- James A. Cadwell (cadwell@sumax.seattleu.edu) wrote:
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- : Is there a ftp'able source of weather maps or other
- : satellite image files
-
- : AND
-
- : a freely available method of viewing them on an
- : SGI Iris running 4.0.5???
-
- Jim:
- When I downloaded xv from export.lcs.mit.edu, it came along with a
- little shell script that automatically downloads weather maps from
- vmd.cso.uiuc.edu. Xv can also then display the map as a background.
- These maps are posted hourly, so you can put the script in your crontab
- to update the background continuously. I've done this with my Indigo
- and become the envy of... well, people with nothing else to be envious
- of. :)
- -- Bob
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