Dear Alexander, The error occurred while I was accessing GAP through Sage. When I use GAP directly from within a terminal, the problem disappears. Thanks a lot for pointing out that it should work.
All the best, Markus > Dear Markus, > > For me, this works fine, both with default packages and without packages, > for example: > > GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, i686-apple-darwin10.8.0-gcc > Components: small 2.1, small2 2.0, small3 2.0, small4 1.0, small5 1.0, > small6 1.0, small7 1.0, small8 1.0, small9 1.0, small10 0.2, > small11 0.1, id2 3.0, id3 2.1, id4 1.0, id5 1.0, id6 1.0, id9 > 1.0, > id10 0.1, trans 1.0, prim 2.1 loaded. > Packages: AClib 1.1, Polycyclic 2.8.1, Alnuth 2.3.1, AutPGrp 1.4, nq 2.2, > GAPDoc 1.3, IO 3.3, CrystCat 1.1.3, Cryst 4.1.6, CRISP 1.3.4, > CTblLib 1.1.3, TomLib 1.1.4, FactInt 1.5.3, FGA 1.1.0.1, > IRREDSOL 1.2, LAGUNA 3.5.0, Sophus 1.23, MIPLib 1.0, > Polenta 1.2.7, ResClasses 3.0.0 loaded. > gap> AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8)); > <group of size 8 with 3 generators> > > Which version of GAP are you using? How did you install it? > Could you copy-and-paste the exact GAP session where you have this error? > > Best wishes, > Alexander > > > On 25 May 2012, at 10:05, Markus Szymik wrote: > >> >> Dear Forum, >> >> I am trying to compute automorphism groups of p-groups, >> and GAP responds with an error message I don't understand. >> For example, >> >> AutomorphismGroup(DihedralGroup(8)); >> >> results in: >> >> ... >> RuntimeError: Gap produced error output >> Function: number of arguments must be 1 (not 2) >> >> The command works fine for all groups of order less than 8. >> What is wrong here? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Markus >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Forum mailing list >> Forum@mail.gap-system.org >> http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum > > > -- > Dr. Alexander Konovalov School of Computer Science > & Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra > University of St Andrews Tel +44/0 (1334) 461633 > http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~alexk Fax +44/0 (1334) 463278 > The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland:No.SC013532 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
