IBM Visualization Data Explorer Installation and Configuration Guide

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Chapter 5. Disk Space Requirements and Tape Specifications

Data Explorer is comprised of five subsystems as follows:

Base executables

contains all files needed to run Data Explorer.

Development environment

contains libraries, header files and other tools needed to build a custom executive.

Samples

example programs, scripts, tutorial, and makefiles.

Online help and HTML

online help available from the Data Explorer User Interface, and documentation in HTML format.

PostScript and ASCII documentation

Documentation in PostScript format and for printing and in flat ASCII format for basic minimal viewing.

If you are installing Data Explorer from tape:

8mm tapes are 2.3 GB,
1/4 inch tapes are 150 MB (QIC-150),
4mm tapes are 4 GB.

Disk space requirements for each subsystem are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Disk space requirements in megabytes
Subsystem/Platform Base executables Development Samples Online help / HTML PostScript / ASCII Total
IBM 17 16 17 16 12 78
HP 15 14 17 16 12 74
Sun 4 24 16 17 16 12 85
Sun Solaris 24 17 17 16 12 86
SGI 18 23 17 16 12 86
Data General 22 13 17 16 12 80
Digital Equip. 33 40 17 16 12 118


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