IBM Visualization Data Explorer Installation and Configuration Guide

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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