On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Simon King <simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote:
>
> Next problem:
>
> The log file that is created when I put gap=Gap(logfile="logfile")
> contains symbols that can't be interpreted by GAP. Hence, Read
> ("logfile"); in GAP won't work:
>
> @iRead("/home/king/SAGE/sage-4.1/local/pGroupCohomology/GapMaxels");
> Read("/home/king/SAGE/sage-4.1/local/pGroupCohomology/GapMaxels");^M
> @rRead("/home/king/SAGE/sage-4.1/local/pGroupCohomology/
> GapMaxels");@j...@ngap> @iRead("/home/king/SAGE/sage-4.1/local/
> pGroupCohomology/GapMB");
>
> Where does all this @i and @r come from? I thought that the purpose of
> the logfile is to get executable GAP code, so that one can do
> debugging.1. Those control characters are there because GAP is put in a special "control" mode when Sage communicates with it. See the command used to start GAP. 2. Regarding what the logfile option is for, well.. it is just something built into pexpect. There are is certainly no guarantee that it can be used to exactly reproduce a session for debugging. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
