LOOPS is a package for GAP4 whose purpose is to:
We assume that you have GAP 4.4 or newer installed on your computer. Download the LOOPS package from the distribution website
and unpack the downloaded file into the pkg
subfolder of your GAP folder.
After this step, there should be a subfolder loops
in your pkg
folder. The
package LOOPS can then be loaded to GAP anytime by calling
LoadPackage("loops");If you wish to load LOOPS automatically while starting GAP, open the file
loops/PackageInfo.g
, and change Autoload:=false
to
Autoload:=true
in the file.
The documentation is available is several formats: TeX, pdf, dvi, ps, html, and as an online help in GAP. All these formats have been obtained directly from the master TeX documentation file. Consequently, the different formats of the documentation differ only in their appearance, not in content.
All formats of the documentation except html can be found in the doc
folder
of LOOPS, while the html version is in the htm
folder. You can also
download the documentation at the LOOPS distribution website.
The online GAP help is available upon installing LOOPS, and can be
accessed in the usual way, i.e., upon typing ?
command, GAP displays the
section of the LOOPS manual containing information about command.
Test files conforming to the GAP standards are provided for LOOPS. They
can be found in the folder tst
. The command ReadPackage("loops",
"tst/testall.g")
runs all tests for LOOPS.
We welcome all comments and suggestions on LOOPS, especially those concerning the future development of the package. You can contact us by e-mail.
We thank the following people for sending us remarks and comments, and for suggesting new functionality of the package: Muniru Asiru, Bjoern Assmann, Andreas Distler, Steve Flammia, Kenneth W. Johnson, Michael K. Kinyon, Frank Lübeck, and Jonathan D. H. Smith.
Gábor P. Nagy was supported by OTKA grants F042959 and T043758, and Petr Vojt\vechovský by the 2006 PROF grant of the University of Denver.
loops manual