$ tallymer-mkindex -mersize 19 -minocc 4 -indexname reads -counts -pl read1 read2
# running tallymer-mkindex, version compiled on Jun 20 2008
# write 0 mercounts > 255 to file "reads.mct"
# construct mer buckets for prefixlength 4
# prefixlength = 4
# numofcodes = 256
# average bucket size = 12.37
# indexfilename = reads.mer
# alphasize = 4
# mersize = 19
# numofmers = 3166
# merbytes = 5
# number of extractions: 2890 (0.91)
# overall space peak: main=0.20 MB, secondary=0.74 MB
