The
DBM product databases can be built offline with the offline
command. The directory to be used for output is specified either on the
command line with the -d option, or is taken from the catalog.cfg
directive OfflineDir -- offline in the catalog directory by default. The directory must exist. The source
ASCII files should be present in that directory, and the
DBM files are created there. Existing files will be overwritten.
offline -c catalog [-d offline_dir]
Do a perldoc VENDROOT/bin/offline for full documentation.