Thorfilters-command line interface to Thor Databases and Thor/Merlin server administraion

Thorfilters is included in the administration tools in the Database package

Capabilities:

Can be used in custom scripts for database management tasks

database building, loading, updating

Also via CGI scripts to provide the back end to a Daylight database web-interface

Prerequisites:

thorserver and merlinserver licensed and running
user priveleges for databases
useful to set DY_SECURE_PASSWORDS to FALSE

Implementation:

thorfilter database%dbpass@host:service:user%userpass

Where:
       database--name of the database being opened
       dbpass--password for the database
       host--computer on which the server is running
       service--IPC service (or "port") the server is using
       user--user name for logging into server
       userpass--password for "user" for logging into serve

Commands

THOR

tdtcat-> read and write Thor Data Trees(TDTs)
thorchange-> change the properties of a Thor database
tdtcount -> count bytes, identifiers, non-identifiers and TDTs
thorcrunch-> recover unused space in a Thor database
thordbinfo-> report the configuration of a Thor Database
thordbping-> verify the existence of a Thor database
thordestroy-> destroy a Thor database(permenently erase it)
thordelete-> delete TDTs from a Thor database
thordiff-> compare the contents of two THOR databases
thordump-> dump the contents of a Thor database to a TDT file
thorlist-> dump the contents of a Thor database to a TDT file
thorload-> load data into a Thor database
thorlookup-> look up a TDT in a Thor database
thorls-> as a Thor server to list its databases
thormake-> create a Thor database and/or set its properties
thorping-> verify the existence of a Thor server
thorwho-> ask a Thor server to list current users

MERLIN

merlindbping-> verify the existence of a Merlin database
merlinload-> load a database into the Merlin server's memory
merlinls-> ask a Merlin server to list its databases
merlinping-> verify the existence of a Merlin server
merlinwho-> ask a Merlin server to list current users

Generic Programs

dayevict-> evict clients from Thor/Merlin server or database
daymessage-> send message to users Thor/Merlin clients

Example-Dump the contents of the medchem98demo to a TDT file.

thorlist medchem98demo%@sun1:thor:norah% >medchem98demo.tdt

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