[Xastir] NWS objects

[Jim]

Thanks

Jim, n5zxd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <hacker at tc.fluke.com>
To: "dale huguley" <kg5qd at wxsvr.net>
Cc: <xastir at krypton.hscs.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] NWS objects


> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, dale huguley wrote:
>
> > This somewhat surprizes me- If you wanted to gate everything from Green
> > Bay Weather, it would take GRBTOR GRBSVR GRBSVS GRBNPW GRBFFW GRBFFS and
> > on and on.
> > I would swear it didn't work like this a year ago.
> >
> > I would set a minimum of 3 letters to compare- this would define a
> > weather service office- would keep someone from putting "S" as a station
> > an getting all the NWS offices that start with "S".
>
> Fixed.  The new code allows a partial match, but the string in the
> nws-stations.txt file must be at least three characters long.
>
> I also fixed some possible buffer overflow problems while I was in
> there w.r.t. the scanf() family of functions.
>
> --
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