Readme for Geo::METAR Accessing Aviation Weather Information with Perl. Copyright (c) 1997-2000, Jeremy D. Zawodny BACKGROUND This is the README file for the Geo::METAR Perl module. The Geo::METAR home page is located at: http://www.wcnet.org/jzawodn/perl/Geo-METAR/ 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 so that I can add it to the TODO list. Geo::METAR as been developed and tested on Linux and Solaris as well as Windows NT. It may well work on other platforms. It is pure Perl. If you install it on another platform, and have trouble 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. REQUIREMENTS You will need Perl 5.005 or newer to install and use Geo::METAR. It may work with older versions of Perl, but I make no guarantees. 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. They should provide an idea of what you can do with this module. simple_dump.pl Process a simple METAR. fetch_temp.pl Fetch the temperature and print it out. If you develop a good example that would be useful to others, I'd be glad to add it to the distribution. TODO LIST If you're wondering what will come next in Geo::METAR, see the TODO file.