+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+                                                                           +
+   Copyright (C) 2012        Erhard Aichinger, Franz Binder                +
+                             Jürgen Ecker, Peter Mayr, Christof Nöbauer    +
+                                                                           +
+   This file is part of Sonata.                                            +   
+                                                                           +
+   Sonata is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify          +   
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by    +   
+   the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or       +
+   (at your option) any later version.                                     +
+                                                                           +
+   Sonata is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,               +
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of          +
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the           +
+   GNU General Public License for more details.                            +
+                                                                           +
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License       +
+   along with Sonata. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.         +
+                                                                           +
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      README file for the GAP4 package SONATA



To install SONATA, unpack the archive inside the `pkg' subdirectory of
your GAP 4 installation. It creates a subdirectory called `sonata'.

Then start GAP and load SONATA with the command

LoadPackage("sonata");

In addition to the standard GAP help, we have produced a tutorial for 
SONATA, which can be found in the subdirectory doc/tut/ of the sonata 
package.

E-mail us if  there are any questions,  remarks,  suggestions. Also, we
would like to hear about applications of this package.

Erhard Aichinger
Franz Binder
Jürgen Ecker
Peter Mayr
Christof Nöbauer

email: sonata@algebra.uni-linz.ac.at


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Main changes from SONATA 2.6 to SONATA 2.8
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(1) Corrected bugs in Is1AffineComplete and IsDistributiveNearring