DATABASE DESCRIPTION

• Introduction
  • History
  • Need for a database
  • Access mode
  • User's guide overview
• Database Overview
  • Basic concepts
    • Database concept
    • Data types
    • The basic scheme
    • Star numbering
    • Star membership
  • Directory organisation
  • File organisation
  • Record structure
  • Data sources
  • Data content
  • Access to the information
  • Bibliography and references
  • On-line help and information
  • Facilities offered by the database
  • Graphics
  • Correction and updating
  • User's profile
  • Scientific use
  • Future plans
• Database structure
  • Clusters
  • Programs
  • Description and documentation
  • Bibliography and references
  • Miscellanous
• Query modes
  • Introduction
  • The command mode
    • General principles
    • Command and function shell scripts
    • A complementary approach
  • Menu mode
  • The prompt mode
  • The user graphical interface mode
• Installing BDA
  • From tape to disk
  • The environment
    • Definition of environment variables
    • Meaning of environment variables
    • Checking the installation parameters
    • The file .bdarc
    • The file .alias.bda
  • Other settings
    • The file .cshrc
    • The .login file
    • The .logout file
    • The .openwin-menu file
  • Compilation of the C or Fortran programs
  • Graphics package (SM 2.3)
  • Tutorial of the database
  • References
  • Language of the database
  • Comments and questions