.TH PM-PREPARE 1 2018-10-07 NCBI "NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual" .SH NAME pm\-prepare \- prepare a directory to hold a local NCBI PubMed archive .SH SYNOPSIS \fBpm\-prepare\fP \fIdir\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBpm\-prepare\fP prepares \fIdir\fP to hold a local NCBI PubMed archive. It also advises the user on steps to ensure that access to this tree is quick and that the system knows to treat it as a cache. .SH SEE ALSO .BR archive\-pubmed (1), .BR index\-pubmed (1).