MemCom Reference Manual > The MemCom Tools and Utilities > Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction

The MemCom tools and utilities consist of a collection of programs for inquiring and maintaining MemCom databases as well as for checking MemCom installations. The following MemCom databases utility programs are available:

  • The mcbrowser MemCom data browser (distributed in a separate package).

  • The MemCom Python module (distributed in a separate package) and the pymcmon laucher, which invokes the Python interpreter, allowing for interactive manipulation of databases by means of the Python language.

  • mcconv7 converts a MemCom 6 database to a MemCom 7 database (MemCom 6 is distributed in a separate package).

  • mcinfo prints the file status information of a MemCom database.

  • mcfromnf converts a MemCom neutral (text) file to a MemCom database.

  • mcisdbfile checks if file is a MemCom database (MemCom version 7 only).

  • mcserver program is used when operating MemCom in client/server-mode.

  • mctonf converts a MemCom database to a MemCom neutral (text) file.

  • mcversion prints the version number of the current MemCom installation.

[Note]Note

The old MemCom Monitor mcmon, a key-word driven interactive program for accessing the MemCom database manager and table manager library functions is not supported anymore but can be obtained from SMR as a source code package without any support from SMR. Please contact SMR at <info@smr.ch>.

The following utilitiy programs for checking MemCom installations are available:

  • The mcchecklicense license verification utility.