[GAP Forum] Problems with Saved workspaces

[Steve Linton]

Dear GAP Forum,

Laurent Bartholdi reported:

> hi,
> i'm using frank luebeck's compilation
> (http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de:8001/RsyncLinuxGAP/index.html) and
> the following happens:
> % gapL
> GAP4, Version: 4.4.5 of 13-May-05, i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> gap> P := 1;
> 1
> gap> SaveWorkspace("xxx");
> true
> gap> quit;
> % gap -L xxx
> GAP4, Version: 4.4.5 of 13-May-05, i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> gap> P;
> function( a ) ... end
> 
> (this was unfortunate, since i created nightly a presentation P with
> 17000 generators and 211000 relations...)
> 

This is bug in GAP, and will be fixed in the next update. The problem relates
only to the specific variable name "P", so as a workaround, users are
advised to call their data in saved workspaces something else. We apologise to
Laurent for his lost presentation.


	Steve




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