Command names for help and information

A number of commands have been prepared to get on-line help and information on the database.

Not all hypertext descriptions have been wiritten but most man pages have been prepared. Enter

man bda

to have a list of the commands already described.

emploi
Describe the capabilities of commands
man
Display the command manual pages (Unix command)
mnl
Display the command manual pages (French)
doc
Display the menu of BDA descriptions
type
Define the datatype associated to a kind of data
ncm
Access to descriptions of the command names
option
Display the option description
nfile
Display the filename associated to a datatype
fichier
Display the file content description
field
Display the field names of a datatype
form
Display the format of the datatype specified

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