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

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

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

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 server

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
  

• Contrib

  See also contributed filter-type programs.
  

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

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

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