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Convert, name, check and screen structures from a terminal with the same engine as the app. Offline.

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  1. 1 · How-toHow to install the athanor command lineDownload athanor-windows-x64.exe, rename it athanor.exe, put it in a folder on your PATH, and run athanor --version. It is one file with nothing to install, and it works offline.
  2. 2 · Referenceathanor command referenceathanor convert, name, info, check, screen, batch and mcp. Input is a file, - for stdin, or a SMILES string. Exit status is 0 when done, 1 when the chemistry has errors or was refused, and 2 when the command failed.
  3. 3 · How-toHow to convert a folder of structures at onceRun athanor batch ./structures --to cdxml --out ./for-chemdraw. Each file gets a line saying ok, with where it went, or failed, with the reason. The exit status is 1 if any file failed.
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