Melchior FRANZ schrieb:
> * Georg Vollnhals -- Monday 03 March 2008:
>   
>> When searching for more documentation I read about your metar proxy ...
>> long ago.
>> I think this was the predecessor of the actual metar tool and the METAR
>> capabilities of FG.
>>     
>
> No. A perl script called "metar" was the predecessor. Then Erik
> demanded that I rewrite it in C++ for simgear (we had a metar
> parser before that, but it was imported from outside, very complex
> and hard(er) to understand). I wrote the metar proxy later, after
> someone asked for a built-in feature to replay old metar data.
> I found that this was a bad idea, and that the already implemented
> features could handle that already, if a fake NOAA server (the
> proxy) would just return old data. (I think the metar proxy has
> only one user, and it's not me. :-)
>
> m. 
>
>   
"Nichts ist so tief begraben, als daß es nicht ans Licht käme"
Thank you for the info.
Georg

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