Readme for Geo::METAR-1.7 Accessing Aviation Weather Information with Perl. Copyright (c) 1997-98, Jeremy D. Zawodny BACKGROUND This is the README file for Geo::METAR.pm. The Geo::METAR home page is located at: http://www.wcnet.org/~jzawodn/perl/METAR/ The current version is 1.7. It was released on October 27th, 1998. There may be bugs in the code as well as in the documentation. If you find either, I'd appreciate a patch or at least a mail message to let me know what's wrong. Geo::METAR as been developed and tested on Linux and Solaris as well as Windows NT. It may well work on other platforms. If you install it on another platform, I'd like to hear about it. If you develop patches for that platform, I'd REALLY like to hear about it. Send me a note. There's nothing that I know to be platform-dependent in here, but you never know. INSTALLATION Installing Geo::METAR is an easy process. % perl Makefile.PL % make % make test % make install DOCUMENTATION The documentation is built-in to the Geo::METAR module in POD format. You can use any of the pod2* converters to translate it to a more readable format. The three most common formats are 'man', 'html', and 'text'. When you ran the 'make install' above, documentation should have been installed on your system such that 'perldoc Geo::METAR' will spit it out. Of course, you can run your favorite pod converter and generate it in alternative formats. Example Scripts The following scripts are included in the examples directory. They are provided as examples. What you do with them is your business. simple_dump.pl Process a simple METAR. fetch_weather.pl Fetch the weather and print it out. (Not complete yet.) Wish List If you're wondering what will come next in Geo::METAR, see the Wishlist file in the distribution directory. $Id: README,v 1.5 1998/10/28 02:39:46 jzawodn Exp jzawodn $