History

This document developed from the documentation for VAX/VMS Figaro, written by Keith Shortridge. It included some separate documents by J.G. Robertson, Jeremy Walsh and William Lupton. The Specdre Appendix and the Twodspec Appendix are adapted from the Specdre and Twodspec manuals respectively.

Portable Figaro has evolved from Figaro 3.0 as distributed for VAX/VMS by Starlink, with some minor contributions from Sun Figaro 2.4.5 as produced by Samuel Southard (Caltech).

Figaro 3.0 was a release from AAO, but it had been adapted somewhat by Starlink (Figaro 3.0-3 and 3.0-5). Also some modifications had been made under the term `National Figaro' (3.0-1 through 3.0-6). Porting Figaro 3.0 to Unix was a joint effort by the `Figaro Port Group' Michael Ashley and Brad Carter (UNSW), Stephen Meatheringham MSSSO), Horst Meyerdierks (UoE, Starlink), and Keith Shortridge (AAO).

Specdre was written by Horst Meyerdierks (UoE, Starlink). It was incorporated into Figaro by Anne Charles (RAL, Starlink).

Twodspec was written by Tim Wilkins (Manchester and Cambridge) and Dave Axon (Manchester) with subsequent porting by John Palmer (Manchester) and Anthony Holloway (Manchester).