Storm-Tracker ------------- Storm-Tracker is a collection of Perl modules designed to work with tropical storm advisories issued by NOAA. The modules maintain an insert and query only file based database. Examples of the type of advisories this collection can work with can be found at ftp://ftp://ftp.met.fsu.edu in the /pub/weather/tropical/WTNT3/ and /pub/weather/tropical/WTPZ3/ directories. This collection is still very much in the beta stage. It is possible that future maintenance and development will be assumed by Dr. Paul Rusher's group within the meteorology department of Florida University. PREREQUISITES All modules were developed on a system running Solaris 2.5.1. and perl version 5.005_02. The modules contain only perl code and should run on any flavor of UNIX. The code directly manipulates file paths and therefore will not run under windows without modification. The Storm-Tracker bundle requires the following modules be installed. IO::Dir IO::File File::Path These packages should be available on CPAN if not in the core distribution. INSTALLATION You install the Storm-Tracker bundle as usual by running: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DOCUMENTATION POD style documentation is included in all modules. These are normally converted to manual pages and installed as part of the "make install" process. You should also be able to use the 'perldoc' utility to extract and read documentation from the module files directly. SUPPORT The Storm-Tracker bundle is not currently supported. Dr. Ruscher or one of his associates may take on the task, but then again he/they might not. It is my hope that even without support the modules will prove useful to someone else, even if only as a starting place. Please insure that any significant improvements or additions are posted to CPAN for everyone's benefit. AVAILABILITY The current version of Storm-Tracker should be available from CPAN: http://www.cpan.org/ COPYRIGHT 1999 Jimmy Carpenter. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.