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- From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Screen background
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.110840.17602@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 10:08:39 GMT
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- In article <47208@shamash.cdc.com>, george@efe.frk.cdc.com (G. Ioannidis) writes:
- -- But there is a problem with us Europeans: We would like to have the weather
- -- map of Europe instead. And besides that, due to the time diference, we get a night
- -- picture of the USA, while it is early morning here.
- --
- -- Do you know of any actual European weather map name?
- Log on to cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk, which is a machine of the metereological
- institute at the Eniversity of Edinburgh, anonymous ftp, directories images
- and images/gif. They have several European maps which are updated daily.
-
- The problem will probably be bandwidth, but maybe you get from there a pointer to
- somewhere nearer you.
- Thomas
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