[GAP Forum] command line option -N

[Alexander Konovalov]

Dear Roberto,

On 12 Mar 2013, at 20:27, Roberto Ràdina <roberto.radina at tiscali.it> wrote:

> Dear forum,
> 
> the manual says:
> 
> "So if you have installed GAP yourself then you should think about creating
> a workspace file immediately after you have started GAP with the command
> line option -N,"
> 
> "Certain Boolean options (-b, -q, -e, -r, -A, -D, -M, -N, -T, -X, -Y) toggle
> the current value"
> 
> but the point is: what is the effect of the -N option? My workspace was
> created without it but it seems to work...

The -N option was used in GAP 4.4 to suppress the reading of any existing 
completion files. The mechanism of using completion files has been withdrawn
since GAP 4.5, so this option became undocumented. Thanks for pointing out
on these relic references to the -N option - we should clean them up.

Thus, I suppose that your workspace works fine. 

Best wishes,
Alexander