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   Jim DeClercq to Jim DeClercq   
   Re: zWeather   
   26 Dec 09 08:12:17   
   
   From: jimd@panix1.panix.com   
      
   Talking to myself again. Top posting too. Google Weather Underground, or   
   wunderground, and they have a XML feed based on zip code. Should I ever   
   find time to work on this, it seems a better source. And, you can see what   
   is there. CAB works for this.   
   Jim   
      
   Jim DeClercq  writes:   
      
   : Yes, I could, but not right now, or any time soon. I am in the process of   
   : complicating my life, any my instant problem is packing stuff to make room   
   : for more feet. But first, there is no longer a list of correspondence   
   : where I could look up what versions of compilers actually work. I have   
   : EasyMint 1.52 files. What should I have?   
      
   : Jo Even Skarstein  writes:   
      
   : : Jim DeClercq  wrote:   
   : : > Has anyone else had a problem with zWeather: For me, it stopped working   
   : : > when the US caught up with the rest  of the world in location names.   
      
   : : > I was 43560, which is a zip code, and that worked until it became   
   : : > USOH0935, which is the same in country-state-location number format.    
   Now,   
   : : > neither works, and I did clear the cache.   
      
   : : I think zWeather works by downloading an XML-file from the weather-site   
   : : and then parse it. If the format of the XML changes, zWeather will stop   
   : : working. You could download zWeather's source code and add some   
   : : debugging statements to see where it fails.   
      
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