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Alamode Commands Overview

 

The shell used by Alamode is an extension of a standard TCL shell. It is not an extention of the standard SUPREM shell. This document makes no attempt to teach TCL. Refer to Tcl and the Tk Tookit by John K. Ousterhout (ISBN 0-201-63337-X) for further information on TCL.

One immediately apparent difference between the SUPREM command language and Alamode's is that parameters use -tag value, which is common in TCL extensions, as opposed to SUPREM's GENII-style tag = value.

A second, and equally important difference, is that many commands return usable values. Some of the commands also create new commands, which can then be used as any other Alamode command.

Recommended reading in Tcl and the Tk Tookit:

Beyond the standard TCL shell commands, Alamode provides commands for I/O of SUPREM mesh, query of regions and fields, model definition, and solution control. Currently the solution control is limited to tweaking of parameters in hardcoded algorithms, but this will change in a future release.





Dan Yergeau
Tue Jul 23 12:05:19 PDT 1996