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1. Preface

### 1. Preface

The purpose of this package is to allow efficient and flexible input/output operations from GAP. This is achieved by providing bindings to the low-level I/O functions in the C-library. On top of this an implementation of buffered I/O in the GAP language is provided. Further, a framework for serialisation of arbitrary GAP objects is implemented. Finally, an implementation of the client side of the HTTP protocol is included in the package.

This package allows to use file based I/O, access to links and file systems, pipes, sockets, and the UDP and TCP/IP protocols.

By default the IO package is not automatically loaded by GAP when it is installed. You must load the package with `LoadPackage("IO");` before its functions become available.

Please, send me an e-mail (neunhoef@mcs.st-and.ac.uk) if you have any questions, remarks, suggestions, etc. concerning this package. Also, I would like to hear about applications of this package.

Max Neunhöffer

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