ABF stands for Astronomische Beeldverwerkings Faciliteiten (Astronomical Imageprocessing facilities), an expertise center in which all dutch astronomical instriutes collaborate. [more information can be found here]
Every package has a submenu which contains the entry to start the application and an entry to view documentation.
Plotting
This contains entries for plotting programs such as
IDL, SAOimage, Mongo, SuperMongo and
GreG.
Every package has a submenu which contains the entry to start the application and an entry to view documentation.
Text Editing
This menu contains WordPerfect (5.1) and a menu-driven interface to
TeX.
DataBases
This contains an entry for running Oracle. The remainder of this menu
contains shortcuts for access to remote databases.
Utilities
This menu contains evrything that is not covered in the other menus :
WWW, mathematica and printing of documentation.
Help
This menu starts up xinfo at a specified entry point. Note that the
whole information network is also available on the WWW :
ABF TexInfo
directory.