*** Announcing LAS 6.0 ***

[Jonathan Callahan <callahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

           * * * Announcing LAS version 6.0 * * *

Version 6.0 of the Live Access Server is now available from the LAS
downloads page.

  http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/Downloads/

Please try out this new release and contact us with any problems you
encounter.

What's new in release 6.0?

- Completely redesigned, faster, more flexible Java servlet based user  
interface
- Support for multi-level hierarchies for datasets and variables
- Automatically generated metadata pages allow user to "discover"  
information about datasets and variables
- Search interface
- Download of multiple variables 
- Side-by-side plots. Two variables are displayed next to each other in
a   user selectable row or column.
- Updated scripts to allow automated access to a LAS data server
- All required Perl modules included in distribution

You may download LAS from the following page

  http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/Downloads/

Updated installation and configuration documentation is available at:

  http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/Documentation/

For a list of systems on which the server has been tested, please see:

  http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/FAQ/os_browser_table.html

You can view the 6.0 server in action by going to:

 http://stout.pmel.noaa.gov/las_v60/servlets/dataset

Source code for LAS (in Perl and JavaScript) is included in the download
tarball. The latest snapshot of LAS is also always available via
anonymous cvs (see the installation documentation for more info). LAS
version 6 requires that MySQL be installed on your server.

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    Joe Sirott
    Jon Callahan
    Joe Mclean
    Steve Hankin