Shortly after the project was registered, Google informed me that the name
"spectralworks" was already in use by at least two companies.
OLIS Online Instrumentation Systems Inc (http://www.olisweb.com/software/) 
uses the name for their spectral analysis program. 
In fact I am familiar with this program, and it is likely that I 
subconsciously stole their name when trying to come up with a name 
for this project.

SpectralWorks Ltd (http://www.spectralworks.com) is a company producing
software for mass spectrometers.

Clearly this is a problem, at least if either company choses to
enforce its rights. For now, I'll just slap "Open" in front of the 
name to distinguish it. If you return one day and there is no
OpenSpectralWorks project, search for specdataworks or specdataman, 
spectranalysis, scanspectralworks to find the reincarnation under 
another name.
Heck, everything already exists!

The sourceforge "unix name" is scanedit.
When I went to work in Tony's lab, there were two main spectrophotometer
instruments in use (both built by Tony and his students, of course)
I was assigned to develop the "scanning" instrument, which records
absorbance while scanning the wavelength to produce a spectrum. 
The other instrument was a "kinetic" or "Flash" instrument, which 
recorded the absorbance as a function of time after a reaction was 
triggered by a flash of light. Hence my programs were all called 
scan*.exe. When I made a version for just looking at the results,
perhaps on another computer while the experiment was still going
on on the first, I called it scanedit.


Ed Berry