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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
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Subject: [rec.aviation] weather maps on your x terminal
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Date: 21 Feb 91 02:24:01 GMT
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Archive-name: graphics/maps/wxmap/1991-02-20
Archive: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/wxmap-1.9.tar.Z [128.174.5.50]
Original-posting-by: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Original-subject: weather maps on your x terminal
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> From: Charley Kline <hela!uiuc.edu!c-kline>
> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 15:32:05 CST
> Sender: hela!garcon.cso.uiuc.edu!kline
> 
> The ASUS1 product on the NWS feed provides latitude and longitude of 
> points along fronts; wxmap interprets them and draws them.  You can 
> fetch wxmap by anonymous FTP from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in 
> pub/wxmap-1.9.tar.Z; it requires an X Window System Server to draw the 
> maps on.  

This program works well, although I haven't been able to get it to 
draw fronts.  It loads the data over the internet and then draws 
various maps on your screen.  

-- 
Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us