Copies of the database are available for SUN and DEC Unix worksations.
The tape has been created on SUN with the command tar cfb /dev/rst1 126 .. The information is thus blocked with a blocksize of 126.
To install the database, create a directory called bda (mkdir bda), move to it (cd bda) and tar the tape (tar xbf /dev/unit 126 .)
bda is the top directory which contains all the sub-directories. It also contains also a file named .bdarc (the dot is important!) which collects the environment variables and path. In particular, one has to write in the first line of this file the path to bda. The present one is /home/vaud/mermio/bda. /home/vaud/mermio/ has to be replaced by the new path.