[GAP Forum] Re: [GAP Support] using gap from another program

[David Joyner]

Nicolas:

A very simple example of a python-gap interface is at
http://cadigweb.ew.usna.edu/~wdj/gap/
I don't know java, but perhaps that example will help you.

I'm cross-posting to the Forum, in case there might be
other GAP users interested as well.

- David Joyner

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Nicolas Demoulin wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a student in computer science from University College Cork and I am 
> doing a project on Symmetry Breaking in CSP. I have already used gap but 
> what I would like to do know is to insert gap in my main program which 
> is written in Java. And I saw in the faq that :
> 
> "What you can do is to run GAP in a child process and communicate with 
> it using pipes, pseudo-ttys, UNIX FIFOs or some similar device. We have 
> done this successfully in a number of projects, and you can contact the 
> support list for more detailed advice if you want to go down this route"
> 
> So if you can give me advice or examples of communication between gap 
> and another program, it will help me very much.
> 
> Thank you to have taken time to read me
> Best Regards
> 
> Nicolas Demoulin
> 
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