NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Eastern Region Computer Programs and Problems NWS ERCP-6 MC. TAV: A Program to Prepare a Customized Travelers Forecast Broadcast Text

摘要

The TAV program will prepare a customized Travelers Forecast Broadcast Text for use on the NWR by extracting the weather and temperature from the Travelers Forecast Table. The output is to the Epson printer via the ABT. The program will return to the system upon completion. The program is written in BASIC and run time is approximately one minute. A SETUP program is contained on the same disk. This program allows each station to select which cities will appear on their customized broadcast text, as well as the order in which they will be printed. This program must be run once to create the files used by the TAV program. The content and format of the TAV program can be changed later by re-running the SETUP program. This program is very user friendly and asks that each entry be checked as it is entered. This causes the program to be a bit slow, but total time on the SETUP program should be less than 5 minutes.