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INSTALL.md: workaround for ˆ-key under OS X
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wucas authored and Lucas Wollenhaupt committed Mar 19, 2019
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This is a problem if you are running a keyboard driver for some non-english
languages. These drivers catch the ^ character to produce the French
circumflex accent and do not pass it properly to GAP. For OS X users, please refer to the section "GAP for OS X" below for
information on how to install readline and recompile GAP as a workaround, for windows no fix is known. (One
circumflex accent and do not pass it properly to GAP. For OS X users, as a workaround please refer to the section "GAP for OS X" below for information on how to install readline and section 5 on how to recompile GAP, for windows no fix is known. (One
can type POW(a,b) for a^b.)

Problems specific to Windows
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xcode-select --install

You might want to consider using Readline by installing it via:

* using Homebrew: `brew install readline`
* using Fink: `fink install readline7`
* using MacPorts: `port install readline`

After that follow the instruction in section 5 about how to use Readline.

Now simply follow the Unix installation instructions to compile and start
GAP and then it will run in this Terminal window.

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