The GAP 4 package Utils

Introduction

This package collects together utility functions from a selection of GAP packages in order to make them more widely visible to other package authors.

Other generally useful functions, which are not deemed suitable for the main library, and also welcome. For example, recent additions are functions to convert certain types of group to Magma format.

Distribution

• The GitHub package repository is at https://github.com/gap-packages/utils/
• and the latest release is available at https://gap-packages.github.io/utils/

Copyright

The Utils package is Copyright {\copyright} The GAP Group, 2015-2024.

Utils is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

For details, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Installation

• unpack utils-<version_number>.tar.gz in the pkg subdirectory of the GAP root directory.

• From within GAP load the package with:

  gap> LoadPackage(“utils”);

• The file manual.pdf is in the doc subdirectory.

Contact

If you have a question relating to Utils, encounter any problems, or wish to suggest other functions to be transferred to the package, please

• email cdwensley.maths@btinternet.com
• or report an issue on the GitHub issue tracker at: https://github.com/gap-packages/utils/issues/new