                       README file for the Utils package 
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Introduction 
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This package collects together utility functions from a selection of GAP 
packages in order to make them more widely visible to other package authors.

Distribution
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The ``Utils'' package first became a deposited GAP package on 11/02/2016 with version 0.25. 
The GitHub package repository is at https://github.com/gap-packages/utils/ 
and the latest release is available at http://gap-packages.github.io/utils/

Copyright
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The Utils package is Copyright {\copyright} The GAP Group, 2015-2016. 
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 \URL{http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html}

Installation
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1) unpack `utils-<version_number>.tar.gz' in the `pkg' subdirectory 
of the GAP root directory.

2) From within GAP load the package with:
gap> LoadPackage("Utils"); 

3) The file manual.pdf is in the `doc' subdirectory.

Contact
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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 c.d.wensley@bangor.ac.uk 
 - or report an issue at https://github.com/gap-packages/utils/issues/new 
