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Information about &GAP; is best obtained from the &GAP; website
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https://www.gap-system.org</
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There you will find, amongst other things:
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directions to the sites from which you can download the
current &GAP; distribution, all accepted and deposited &GAP; packages,
and a selection of other contributions.
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the &GAP; manual and an archive of the <C>gap-forum</C> mailing
list, formatted for reading with a Web browser, and indexed for
searching.
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information about &GAP; developers, and about the email
addresses available for comment, discussion and support.
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We would particularly ask you to note the following things:
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The &GAP; Forum – an email discussion forum for comments,
discussions or questions about &GAP;. You must subscribe to the list
before you can post to it, see the website for details.
In particular we will announce new releases in this mailing list.
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The email address <Email>support@gap-system.org</Email> to which you
are asked to send any questions or bug reports which do not seem likely
to be of interest to the whole &GAP; Forum. Please give a
(short, if possible) self-contained excerpt of a &GAP;
session containing both input and output that illustrates your problem
(including comments of why you think it is a bug) and state the
type of
the machine, operating system, (compiler used, if UNIX/Linux) and the
version of &GAP; you are using (the first line after the &GAP; 4
banner starting <C>GAP,
Version 4...</C>).
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We also ask you to send a brief message to
<Email>support@gap-system.org</Email> when you install &GAP;.
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The correct form of citation of &GAP;, which we ask you use
whenever you publish scientific results obtained using &GAP;.
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It finally remains for us to wish you all pleasure and success in using
&GAP;, and to invite your constructive comment and criticism.
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The GAP Group,
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&RELEASEDAY;
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