Version notes:
   1.1 -- Added better way to get weather from cities with
          two names (the "\s" convention)
       -- Cleaned up documentation a little bit
       -- Figured out that PointCast codes "1" and "3" and "6"
          mean "Fair," "Mostly Cloudy" and "Windy," respectively.

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This is "Weather," version 1.1, a set of DOS batch files and a 
freeware program called MiniTrue (MT.EXE) that will take PointCast 
weather information stored on your hard disk and -- with the aid
of the "MAKEDOC.EXE" program from Pat Beirne -- produce a DOC file 
for the USRobotics PalmPilot that contains PointCast weather 
forecasts for the cities of your choice. 

You must have PointCast installed, and MAKEDOC on the path.

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To run Weather: 
   1. Unzip MTFILES.ZIP.   You only need MT.EXE
   2. With a typical PointCast setup, you can skip steps 3 and 4
      if you just want to get some sample weather data and a 
      DOC file created. Otherwise:

   3. Edit GRABWTHR.BAT to be sure that the directory for 
         PointCast weather information is correct for your setup
         (On my disk it's "C:\Program Files\PointCast\weather\wcity2.lst")
   4. Edit CITYLIST.BAT to put in the city names of your choice

   5. Invoke CITYLIST.BAT as a DOS batch file
   6. Install WTHR.PDB, a DOC file with the current weather, by using
      the INSTAPP.EXE program in your Pilot directory/folder.

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Files in this archive are these:

WEATHER-README.TXT --  This file.

CITYLIST.BAT -- This is the one you call to make it all work.
                Edit the line that starts with GRABWTHR
                to put in the cities you want weather for.
                It works by passing the city names to ...

GRABWTHR.BAT -- CITYLIST calls this one; you can edit it yourself
                to add cities of more than one-word names.
                GRABWTHR.BAT works by copying the PointCast
                weather file and editing the copy to translate
                the short numeric codes into English. It then
                runs MAKEDOC on the result (stored in WTHR.TMP).
                MAKEDOC has to be in the same folder or on the path.

AUTOBOOK.TXT -- Put whatever you want to use as an automatic 
                bookmark for Rick Bram's DOC program in between
                angle brackets in this file. If you want to change
                from the default three spaces, you'll also have to
                edit GRABWTHR.BAT where the REMarks tell you to.

MTFILES.ZIP -- This is a freeware program and its docs called "MiniTrue"
               by "Splunge Software" that does sophisticated string 
               search and replace. It's like Unix GREP or PERL 
               scripts (I think). The author describes it this way:

    "MiniTrue is a fast and versatile search/replace utility run from the
DOS command line. MiniTrue synthesizes the functionality of such
stalwarts as sed, more/less and grep while offering complete
interactivity and a straightforward syntax. MiniTrue is freeware and is
not crippled in any manner.

    "See the MiniTrue home page at <http://www.webbuild.com/~apipkin> for
the latest versions, bug reports, etc."


OTHER FILES YOU WILL WANT:

  DOC -- Rick Bram's text reader for the PalmPilot
         available from <http://www.concentric.net/~rbram/doc.shtml>

  MAKEDOC.EXE -- Pat Beirne's factory for churning out DOC files
         available from <http://www.corel.com/people/patb.htm>

OTHER FILES YOU MIGHT WANT:

  PINSTALL.EXE -- a command-line install program for the Pilot that
         is available from Mark Pierce:
         <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Mark_Pierce/pinstall.htm>


All these are also available from various Pilot software archives, such as

     Adam's archive:    http://www.inforamp.net/~adam/pilot/
     StingerSoft:       http://198.70.114.128/stinger/stingersoft.cfm
     PilotGear:         http://www.pilotgear.com


Trotter Hardy
thardy2@aol.com
June 16, 1997