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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 [http://www.cyana.org/wiki CYANA], [[DYANA]], [[PROSA]], [[GARANT]], [[OPALp]] and [[OPAL]]. INCLAN is not available as a stand-alone program.

== Documentation ==

* [http://www.cyana.org/wiki/index.php/INCLAN_Reference_Manual Reference Manual]
* [[Media:InclanManual.pdf|Manual (PDF)]]
Tutorials:
:* [http://www.cyana.org/wiki/index.php/Writing_and_using_INCLAN_macros Writing and using INCLAN macros]
:* [http://www.cyana.org/wiki/index.php/Using_INCLAN_variables Using INCLAN variables]
:* [http://www.cyana.org/wiki/index.php/Using_INCLAN_control_statements Using INCLAN control statements]

== References ==

* Güntert, P., Mumenthaler, C. & Wüthrich, K. Torsion angle dynamics for NMR structure calculation with the new program DYANA. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jmbi.1997.1284 J. Mol. Biol. 273, 283–298 (1997)]