COMPUTER OPERATIONS
                        COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINES
                             University of Arizona
                                Tucson, AZ 85721



                                   MEMORANDUM
                                  May 15, 1989


          TO:   DBAG users
          FROM: Nick Nelson, Manager
          (nick%evax2@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu)   internet
          (nick@arizevax)    BITNET
          (602)621-5864     

          RE:   Translation of DBAG Manual from Portuguese to English

               I volunteered (key  DECUS  word!!!)  to  translate  the
          manual   for  this  data  base  program  from  the  original
          Portuguese,  using  my  fluent  Spanish  and  a   Portuguese
          dictionary as my only resources...

               The DBAG manual on  the  current  DECUS  tape  contains
          three  main  sections  and  some  appendices.   Titles for 7
          additional sections are present in the Index of  the  manual
          but  no  text seems to have been submitted to DECUS yet.  It
          appears that these sections were anticipated  but  have  not
          yet  been  written  by the DBAG developers.  In any event, I
          have translated the sections  included  on  the  DECUS  tape
          supplied me by Glenn Everhart.

               This is a "one-pass" translation  and  could  use  some
          cleaning  up.   I  will continue to work on it and hopefully
          have a  better  version  later  this  year.   Note  that  in
          addition  to  sections with titles and no content, there are
          within the Commands section some headings  with  no  content
          either.These appear to be "template" headings which are left
          blank  intentionally  for  some  commands.    I   added   no
          intentional  blanks  in my translation, although I did leave
          "(?)" as a marker for some passages that I just couldn't get
          to make sense.

               Below is an outline of the Index for  the  DBAG  manual
          showing the status of each chapter:


          1.  Preface - 1 page; translated
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          2.  Introduction - 34 pages; translated

          3.  Commands - 50 pages; translated

          4.  Menu Use - not yet available

          5.  The DBAG Editor - not yet available

          6.  Utilities - not yet available

          7.  Saving and Restoring data bases - not yet available

          8.  Importing and exporting data - not yet available

          9.  General limits - not yet available

         10.  Terminology - not yet available

         11.  Performance - not yet available

         12.  Anomolies and Error Recovery - not yet available

         13.  Appendices - 6 pages; translated


               There is a note in one of the  DBAG  subdirectories  to
          the  effect  that the online HELP is in English and is quite
          comprehensive.  (I have not tried to use DBAG yet).