[3751] in SIPB bug reports
Re: "weather" script
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Sun May 16 16:13:46 1993
To: bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu, sipb@athena.mit.edu
Cc: Eric McDonald <ericldab@athena.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 14 May 93 21:56:38 -0400.
Date: Sun, 16 May 93 16:13:22 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@athena.mit.edu>
>From: Eric McDonald <ericldab@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>
> I maintain the weather locker, and I was hoping you all might help me
>out. It seems there's a naming conflict between a program called
>"weather" in /mit/weather/*bin and one in /mit/sipb/*bin. I think
>this may confuse some people who do an "add sipb" before "add weather",
>since the two programs behave differently and work on different
>sources of data.
>
> Would you consider renaming your weather script? getweather and getwx
>are some names that pop to mind as possible alternatives. I would consider
>renaming my program except that (1) I'm pretty sure mine has been around
>longer (since last September or so) and (2) I have an X-based version
>called "xweather", and I'd have to rename that too.
>
> Thanks for considering my request, and please let me know if I can
>provide any more info!
% where weather
weather is aliased to finger weather@cirrus.mit.edu | clean | m
/mit/sipb/rtbin/weather
/mit/watchmaker/bin/weather
I'll take care of my alias. :)
tlyu just removed /mit/watchmaker/bin/weather - a Great Moment in
Watchmaker History(TM).
Let's see this sipb one:
% /mit/sipb/rtbin/weather
unknown mode: sane
[and then it just hangs]
No sanity? Ok, I suggest we also fix this with rm. Does anyone
use the sipb program?
The weather program in the weather locker is *nice*, has nicer
formatting than "finger weather@cirrus.mit.edu", and has a real
man page (the sipb one doesn't). Eric has put a lot of time into
the program, and it makes sense for people to do "add weather;weather"
and not get a broken program elsewhere. Does someone want to take
care of this, or do we need more discussion?
- Richard
