I was never convinced that sufficient people would use this
compatibility stuff and run our tasks from the IRAF cl rather than more
friendly command languages (with command-line recall, for example) to
make it worthwhile. It was probabl more a political exercise.
Also I was never involved in the interface part, only the format
conversions, so would not know where start. If it's trivial and someone
can provide instructions, I'm happy to implement them for Figaro. If
OTOH it means learning some new stuff which we're not supporting, I'm
with David.
Nicola can still use our tasks with FITS files (or Old IRAF Format)
rather than NDFs with the automatic format conversion running them from
the UNIX shell. He also avoids the arcane command structures...although
he may be used to them by now. It might be better to find out what he's
doing and offer an alternative route, thereby not sending a purely
negative response.
Malcolm
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