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Recently we announced our new internet data server (posted again below), and
we have had a great responce, but, a few users were unable to access our 
new internet data server by its name,and had to access it by our direct IP 
number.  We have added instructions to do this to the installation guide 
found on our home page and FTP site of:

http://mars.jdsoft.com (home page) 
mars.jdsoft.com /Lightning directory (FTP)

It is in the INSTALL.TXT document.  There are simple instructions on how to 
change your system to look at our direct IP number instead of the 
internet name.  These instructions are found at the end of the document.

If you received a message something like "failed to get internet address", 
then you should get these instructions.  If you are having other difficulties, 
please call our tech support number at (801) 753-1133, or
email your tech support question to tech@mars.jdsoft.com.

For those who haven't seen the system, here is a copy of our previous posting:

JD Software has recently put a new automated internet data
server on-line, and we are looking for people to try it out
free of charge!  A shareware version of our commercial package
Lightning! The Environmental Database Manager(tm) (Lightning!)
is used to pull data from our server just as though you had
it right on your machine!  It is all automatic.  There is no
complicated login's or data conversions.  Lightning! takes care
of getting you the data and putting it into products that are
usable.  The system auto-updates itself when new products and
data sets are added.

Lightning! is a package that allows you to manipulate large
data sets with relative ease and high speed.  It has built
in exporting, graphing, spatial mapping, and other "reports" 
that let you work with data in numerous ways.

We have a large archive of data!  Currently, we have online, 
the entire Daily COOP (TD3200) NCDC data set, and a large
world data set (global summary 1977-1991), and snotel data.
We are adding globalsod, and US river flow shortly, and we 
are looking for all sources of data.  We have other data 
sets that we are adding, but we won't announce those until 
we have them ready to put online.

We update our Daily COOP data set every month! (or whenever
NCDC has it available), so you will always have the latest
data available to you right on your machine.

The daily coop set has over 18,000 stations across the US, and
over 10,000 stations for the world data set.  The snotel set
currently has close to 600 stations.

You don't have to have an internet connection to get this data 
nor the Lightning package.  You can order data directly from
us.  We press your order on a CDRom with Lightning and the
data you want.  Call us for more details.

Currently, this system requires that you have an MS Windows(tm)
version 3.1 or better, with 8 meg of ram, and as little as
10 meg of harddrive space.  In addition, you must have a
windows interface to the internet (like trumpet winsock) if you
want to get to the data via internet.

There is no charge to get on and test the system.  The shareware
version comes with smaller station lists (about 1,600 US stations,
and 1,900 world stations) due to size restraints.  If you get an
account on the server, you can get access to the entire archive.


To get the system, or for more info/samples, do the following:

Go to our WWW site - http://mars.jdsoft.com/index.html
(be sure to put the /index.html at the end)
or
Anonymous FTP - mars.jdsoft.com   /Lightning  (for system only)

The WWW site would be your best bet.  It has samples
of Lightning!'s output and a more detailed description
of the system.  Just grab follow the instructions on
the WWW site, and it will help you get the system.

If you are FTP'ing, you will need to cd to the 
/Lightning directory on our FTP server.  We do not
keep Lightning products in /pub.

You will need to get INSTALL.TXT, UP-N-RUN.TXT, and
one of the following:
LTNG14IS.EXE  (small version 1.3meg)
or 
LTNG14IL.EXE  (large version 8.2meg)

The small version has a single low quality digital line
graph data set of the world for mapping.

The large version has world and US elevation and digital
line graph data like county lines, major rivers, climate
divisions, etc...  

You can upgrade to the large version later if you wish, but,
if you have a fast connection, we suggest you get the large
version now.  You will really like the extra info when
you map or zoom in and out selecting stations.  The mapping 
system can adjust values to the elevation files if
they are present.

If you have questions or comments, please send email
to:  tech@mars.jdsoft.com

If you wish to be kept up to date on new data sets and
products, please email your company/agency name, your 
name, phone number, address, and email address to:
               ltng@mars.jdsoft.com


Thanks, Jeff Brown

JD Software Developers, Inc.
1770 North Research Park Way - Suite 126
North Logan, Utah 84341-1941
Sales & Product Info (800) 537-0836
or from outside the USA (801) 753-6655
Technical Support (801) 753-1133
or email tech@mars.jdsoft.com
WWW Site - http://mars.jdsoft.com/index.html
Anonymous FTP Site - mars.jdsoft.com