README_ORIGINAL

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  TOPCOM: Triangulations of Point Configurations and Oriented Matroids
               Version 1.1.0 by J�rg Rambau - 12 Sep 2022
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Copyright (C) 1999--2022 J�rg 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 as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program 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
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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 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.

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

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