# 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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