From e306e9e16dbe793b20652a2f94fd5337f018318e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:44:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Initial documentation --- pctb/README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 pctb/README diff --git a/pctb/README b/pctb/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..938f0de --- /dev/null +++ b/pctb/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This tool can: + - screenscrape the commodities trading screen + - produce the results as a tab separated values file + - **TODO** upload the results to PCTB + +To run it, change to this directory, type `make', and then: + ./ypp-commodities >commods.csv + +It may put up a window asking about characters it does not understand. +It is important to get these inputs right or it may misrecognise +things in future. **TODO** write actual useful instructuions to cover the +subtleties. The results are stored in the file `charset-15.txt'. + +If you need to report a bug, please be sure to remember the exact +error message and circumstances. Also, for recognition problems there +will probably be a very useful screenshot file called `#pages#.pnm'. +This is likely to be very large so don't just email it to me, but if +you can put it up on a webpage for me to download that will help. -- 2.30.2