Description and documentation

The documentation of the database, and on-line help of the various query modes are localized in several directories. The distribution is not really exclusive and will be improved when the query programs will be more definite.

• bda/introduction contains the user's guide and installation pages;
• bda/descri contains documentation files used by the dsc and doc menus;
• bda/html contains the hypertext version of the user's guide and the command description for use with NCSA Mosaic;
• bda/emploi contains the command description for line mode;
• bda/man contains man pages for BDA commands and menus which can be displayed with the Unix command man. This directory is subdivided in two subdirectories: man1 and man3;
• bda/manuel contains the French manual files corresponding to the command mnl;
• bda/help contains help information for various programs;
• bda/xhelp contains the text of the on-line help provided with graphical user interface
• bda/dictionnaire contains files that describes the record structure of the data file;
• bda/information contains files with technical information on the data;
• bda/contenu contains the files collecting the database content summary for each datatype.