I was really impressed with the new look of gap, and even more
impressed when both the compilation and the manual latexing went by
without a single warning. It was a bit disapointing that when I
started it, it failed to echo back what I was typing. It seems to be
working, otherwise :-)

The system here is SunOS 4.1.1, and the machines are a variety
of sparcstations. The echo failure occurs whether gap is compiled
with cc or gcc-2.1. It occurs when gap is run on an xterm or on
suns's console. A different thing happens when gap is run in an emacs
shell buffer, see this example:

gap> 10;
^@^@^@^@^@10
gap> 10+10;
^@^@^@^@^@^@20
gap> Factorial(20);
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@2432902008176640000

Each ^@ represents an actual ASCII 0, which I replaced so that it can
go through mailers. What I have shown about emacs happens whether
emacs is running in its own window or in an xterm.

Just for illustration, I started gap in an xterm, and typed in the
same three input lines. This is what I got:

gap> 10
gap> 20
gap> 2432902008176640000

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