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  TOPCOM: Triangulations of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids
               Version 1.1.9 by Jörg Rambau - 7 Mar 2024
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Copyright (C) 1999--2024 Jörg Rambau (joerg.rambau@uni-bayreuth.de)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3 as published by
the Free Software Foundation (see the file COPYING).

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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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See the file INSTALL for generic installation instructions.


IMPORTANT: 

(1) The package should compile just find on systems with a not too old gcc++/clang++
that supports the c++17 standard. Apple silicon with clang should work as well.

(2) The functionality of TOPCOM has been integrated to a large extent into SAGEMATH.
People who do not want to fiddle with commandline tools may want to have a look there.

(3) If you have used TOPCOM in your research, you may want to cite

       	   Jörg Rambau.
       	   ``TOPCOM: Triangulations of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids'',
       	   Mathematical Software - ICMS 2002
       	   (Cohen, Arjeh M. and Gao, Xiao-Shan and Takayama, Nobuki, eds.),
       	   World Scientific (2002), pp. 330-340, available as ZIB Report 02-17.

(4) Further references: For details concerning the Santos triangulation see
Francisco Santos' paper 

	   Francisco Santos.
	   ``A Point Set whose Space of Triangulations is Disconnected'',
	   Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 2000.
