Documentation for VANE.A3X
Command-Line Weather VANE for Windows (XP SP1 and later)
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C.L.Distefano v2 rev.2020-04-11
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Purpose
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Get current weather reports from over 9,000 locations worldwide

Usage
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VANE[/T] location[, XX|country]
XX = Two-letter postal abbreviation for U.S. state or Canadian
province.

Output
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If available, the latest METAR (plain-text) weather report for the
location will open in XyWrite in a NUL window.
Switch /T (framename VANE/T) causes report to be opened in the default text editor

Notes
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State|province|country can be omitted from the command if the location
name is unique.
  E.g.: VANE Tahiti
  But : VANE Rome, Italy|GA|NY|OR

Location and country names can be truncated, from the right or left, if
the location is still uniquely identified. E.g., Par, Fr works for
Paris, France, and Vnukova works for Moscow/Vnukovo. If VANE finds no
left or right match, it will, as a last resort, search for any location
name that contains the string.

If a state|province|country is not supplied, the location returned
will be the first matching location in STATION.INI (see Included
Files, below). Browse STATION.INI to see the available locations.

Included Files
(written to the folder with VANE.EXE the first time you run it)
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*  VANE.TXT -- this documentation file

*  STATION.INI -- A listing in standard INI file format of over
   9,000 METAR weather stations and their ICAO 4-character IDs, based
   on Greg Thompson's continuously updated compilation, maintained
   here: http://www.aviationweather.gov/docs/metar/stations.txt

*  start.exe -- Wengier Wu's handy program launch utility for Windows
   Usage:
   start.exe [+|-|_] program [arguments]
   [+|-|_] to maximize|minimize|hide the program
   /MAX|/MIN|/HID are also accepted

Enjoy!

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C.L.Distefano
rev. 11 Apr 2020
