Dima Pasechnik wrote in his e-mail message of 1995/06/10

I would most appreciate someone posting an instruction on how to
upgrade GAP 3.4 from patchlevel 0.

Steve Linton wrote in his e-mail message of 1995/06/12

The 3.4.1 -> 3.4.2 upgrade was too big to make a sensible patch
file. On the other hand, some share libraries and databases like the
two-groups, did not change at all -- I used diff to determine which
share libraries I really needed to recompile (but omitted to record
which ones they were I'm afraid)

There was indeed no upgrade file when GAP V3R4P2 was released,
but since 'ftp' connections to Aachen are still a bit shaky,
I decided to make one.

First you have to upgrade from GAP V3R4P0 to V3R4P1 and then from V3R4P1
to V3R4P2. This is very likely a lot more work than just getting the
V3R4P2 distribution. But if you insist...

For the first step you must get the upgrade file 'upg3r4p1.dif.gz'
(about 130 KBytes) from 'ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de' in the directory
'old/gap-3.4.1/'. Uncompress this file with 'gunzip upg3r4p1.dif',
and read its beginning, which tells you what to do.

For the second step you must get the upgrade file 'upg3r4p2.dif.gz'
(about 250 KBytes) from 'ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de' in the directory
'pub/gap/'. Uncompress this file with 'gunzip upg3r4p2.dif',
and read its beginning, which tells you what to do.

Note that this upgrade file does *not* upgrade the contributed
package Meataxe from version 2.0.9 (which was included with GAP 3.4.1)
to version 2.0.12 (which is included with GAP 3.4.2). You can get
the new version from 'ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de' in the directory
'pub/incoming/' as the file 'meataxe-2.0.12.zoo' (about 370 KBytes).

Note that this upgrade file does *not* contain the two new contributed
packages Cohomology and GUAVA. They were left out to keep the size of
the upgrade file reasonably small. You can get them from
'ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de' in the directory 'pub/incoming/' as files
'cohomolo.zoo' (about 250 KBytes) and 'guava1r2.zoo' (about 500 KBytes).

Martin.

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