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[vovchik]

Dear tenochslb,

The reason your compilation fails is that you are using an older version of BaCon. Newer versions support C-style comments and that is what there is in line 1. Grab build 28 from basic-converter.org and compile it and replace the older version with the new one.

With kind regards,
vovchik

@ Geoffrey:

I think Carolina should have had those symlinks to start with. They are standard in almost every distro. Thanks for point out that little problem.

[tenochslb]

[vovchik]

Dear tenochslb,

I changed the prog entirely to Spanish and had help from a friend from Colombia who visited me a few days ago. Unfortunately, yesterday that disk crashed along with the source code and now I am trying to rescue that partition. It just crashed out of the blue. In any case, I have the translations of the description codes as provided to Yahoo developers in English and my Spanish translation on paper! So it is merely to write that little routine again. It is all done, but, I am now on a bad laptop without a recent GTK, so I cannot compile the BaCon program on it since it doesn't like markup in tooltips. I hope to have my normal computer up and running soon....

With kind regards,
vovchik

[Eyes-Only]

Gee whiz vovchik! Sorry to have read about your recent troubles with your hard drive crashing! I know only too well about computer problems as this is why I have been absent many months from the forum - my motherboard burnt out so badly I needed another machine. I was very lucky in that a friend of mine heads the computer department of the local school system... they are changing to new computers and I was given an older one by him FREE! And this machine is three times the computer that my older one was!

I wished that we were neighbours vovchik as then I would have you come over to my house to go through my "spare parts" bin. I'm sure that you would easily find two or more hard drives to replace the one that you had lost. After all, you've been a good friend to me here who has helped and encouraged me greatly many, many times.

Good luck my friend! -sigh- I wished I could help.

Amicalement/Cheers,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

[keniv]

Hello All

Working here in lucid 528. Have tried to run it at start up by using the following script in an executable file called startyweather.

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/yweather 27730644 c

I have also tried

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/roxterm -e /usr/local/bin/yweather 27730644 c

I have it in /start but this does no work at start up. However if I click on this file after boot up it works fine. Don't know enough about this to know what I am doing wrong. I now start it using a desktop icon.

Nice little application. Thanks for this.

Regards,

Ken.

[vovchik]

Dear Eyes-Only,

Many thanks for your kind words. I have been making some progress. I put my bad drive in a USB external case and after two days of trying, I have now been able to read most everything. Good thing the drive is an old 80 GB job (IBM, made in Thailand in 2002), so there isn't all that much to copy over to another USB terabyte drive I have. The same day that my disk crashed, I switched to my Lenovo Ideacentre (like a Mac Mini), and the Puppy Live CD got stuck in the slot. I heard that was a common problem with that model, and it is impossible to fix no (emergency hole). Since that Lenovo was only 6 months old, I took it to the shop in VIenna where I bought it and hope they will repair it under guarantee. Also that day - the 14th of January - my powered hub burnt out. Not the power supply, but the hub itself. What a day that was!

I am slowly trying to put things back together and appreciate your understanding. Unfortunately, bad stuff happens once in a while

With kind regards,
vovchik

[seaside]

[keniv]

Hello seaside

Thanks for your script. I have just tested it and it's working fine. I guess anybody could use it if they changed "27730644 c" to their own woeid code. Thanks again for this.

Regards,

Ken.

[01micko]

Hello vovchik,

I downloaded yweather source and upgraded bacon. Compiled fine.

I get the same error mavrothal reported so I wgetted the XML to investigate why and no sooner the problem rectified itself. . I just wanted to see if it's some minor error in your XML parsing routine or some error in the source XML.

Anyway, I'll see if I can reproduce and investigate some other time.

Nice app!

Cheers

[vovchik]

Dear 01micko,

Yep, it is a weird little problem for some sites, and they do fix themselves! I parse using the xml description given on the Yahoo developers' site: http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/. I think some remote sites occasionally submit their xml reports with errors in the xml, and that is the reason we get the "markup" error. It could be also that I am not parsing something properly. If you find out what occasionally goes wrong, please let me know. At the moment, my "development" computer is down (ugly disk crash), but I managed to recover the data and saved to another drive. I have changed the program already for the Spanish translation and only look at the description codes and not the text provided, which sometimes diverges from Yahoo's official description. It is safer just to use the description code and to use that to get the official text string, rather than using the supplied text string in the xml. That change will be implemented in my next revision. If you have a nice parsing routine, please post it!

With kind regards,
vovchik

[keniv]

Hello All

I have noticed over the last few days that the pressure reading on the display has not changed from 982.05 mb. I live within 6 miles of an airport and can listen to the radio volmet. The pressure is varying and is currently 1004 mb. All the other information seems to vary. I wonder if anybody else has noticed the pressure does not appear to update.

Regards,

Ken.

[Semme]

Vovchik, nice coding- thanks. Multiple locations- works a treat.

[vovchik]

Dear tenochslb,

I sent you a PM with my revised Spanish source. Please have a look and, where needed, kindly fix it.

With thanks and kind regards,
vovchik

[Geoffrey]

[vovchik]

Dear Geoffrey,

I am glad yweather can be used to some advantage. My compile line for that: