Figaro 3.2 release

• Contrary to versions 3.1-0 and 3.1-1 this is regarded as a complete package. A new version of the printed User Guide, Starlink User Note 86, version 9, is associated with this release.
• Figaro 3.2 is released for Sun4 (SunOS 4.x), Sun4 (Solaris), DECstation (Ultrix) and Alpha AXP (OSF/1). It has been tested on VAX/VMS (ICL).
• As a service to non-Starlink sites interested in Figaro, the required items from the Starlink Software Collection have been identified and can be shipped as a tar file for any Starlink-supported combination of hardware and operating system. A minimum set is about 10 MByte in size, the full set (including Figaro sources, Figaro object libraries and necessary Starlink libraries) is about 35 MByte.
• Figaro 3.2 includes disk-FITS support. There is no support for tape-FITS, but FITS files can be copied from and to tape with Unix commands.
• Some remaining non-DSA applications were converted to use the DSA library for data access. Thus all applications now support DST and NDF data format. The only exception is that the multi-dimensional axis array needed by SCRUNCH-and created by ECHARC, XCOPI or XCOPY-is not yet supported in NDF format.
• A number of applications were converted to no longer use the general parameters LOGICAL_VALUE etc. Users will hardly notice the difference, all these are prompted parameters that cannot be given on the command line. Users may notice that they now can abort these applications at any prompt.
• A number of bugs have been fixed. Most notably, workspaces used internally were not always released after use (by DSA_UNMAP). MEDSKY in particular did often hit the limit of 32 workspace slots and abort.
• FIGHELP will now find out the terminal size (as set with stty) and page accordingly. Its use is simpler and better documented (try "fighelp fighelp"), you can leave FIGHELP at any prompt including the paging prompt.

To start Figaro on Unix, type:

   % figaro

You should ensure you have a directory $HOME/adam. Help on Figaro may be obtained by typing

   % fighelp figaro
   % fighelp news
   % fighelp \\

Further details can also be found in SUN/86.9.