INCLAN

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Interactive command language

INCLAN is a general command interface language for seamless integration into Fortran or C/C++-based programs that allows the programmer to separate the user interface from the core part of the program and thus to provide a sophisticated, command-driven user interface with minimal programming effort. Similarly, INCLAN can be used as a general driver for coarse-grained parallel applications, in which parallelization occurs at the level of loops in INCLAN scripts rather than within the core algorithms of the underlying application.

Features of INCLAN include:

• A versatile, easy-to-learn, interpreted scripting language
• Shell-like variables combined with Fortran-style arithmetic, character or logical expressions
• Flow control: loops, conditional statements etc.
• Parallelization of loops on shared-memory and distributed-memory parallel computers
• Production of plots and other graphics
• User access to variables of the underlying program
• Straightforward and uniform syntax checking for parameter lists of commands of the underlying program and for user-written INCLAN scripts
• Output control based on importance level; output redirection
• Error handling
• Interface to operating system functions
• CPU time measurements
• Recursive procedures
• Implemented on the major Unix systems, Linux, and on Windows XP/Cygwin

Availability

• INCLAN provides the command line interface and scripting language of the programs CYANA, DYANA, PROSA, GARANT, OPALp and OPAL. INCLAN is not available as a stand-alone program.

Documentation

• Reference Manual
• Manual (PDF)
• Tutorials

• Writing and using INCLAN macros
• Using INCLAN variables
• Using INCLAN control statements

References

• Güntert, P., Mumenthaler, C. & Wüthrich, K. Torsion angle dynamics for NMR structure calculation with the new program DYANA. J. Mol. Biol. 273, 283–298 (1997)