04 Nov 15 09:21, you wrote to me:

 HG> Good morning Mark,

GM to you, too!

 ml>>> this is what you were looking for, right?

 HG>> Close but no hit ;o) This is how it used to look. I don't if Craig
 HG>> edited the data, or if he received it in this form:

 ml>> he pulled it off a different site that apparently combines two
 ml>> different files and links to two or three other sites...

 ml>> i don't know where am-dx.com is getting their trend numbers from... i
 ml>> might be able to have wget pull that page and strip out the html
 ml>> garbage... then it will still need editing to cut everything off

 HG> That's the problem here too ... the editing of the raw material to
 HG> present it in usable form for the users. Even though I'm retired,
 HG> maybe you too ... there's not enough hours available for everything we
 HG> have to and want to do.

ummm... no raw material in view... everything is/was already done... it is
a matter if programatically cutting out the crap^H^H^H^Hunwanted trash...
figuring out how to strip the HTML code pr0n and then cleaning up the
resulting plain text and killing the unwanted schtuff is the bear... it is
much easier to just pull the original from NOAA and then try to find out
where the trend numbers are being pulled from... i've already spent some
30+ hours rooting around all the solar related sites looking for the solar
flux, k-index, and a-index numbers but none of them appear to have what was
being shown in the past... and since the am-dx site says that the page is
updated automatically every minute or every 15 minutes (i forget which)
they're pulling the numbers from somewhere and that somewhere should be
able to be found... apparently i'm not digging my core holes in the proper
places to find paydirt :(

 ml>> so half is better than none, right?

 HG> Right, so far I'll gather together the daily/hourly reports I receive
 HG> from you, into a file and let the users put the pieces together.

hunh?? and here i thought folks were just reading them on your system...

)\/(ark

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