diff --git a/GPL b/COPYING
similarity index 100%
rename from GPL
rename to COPYING
diff --git a/README b/README.md
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rename from README
rename to README.md
diff --git a/makedocrel.g b/makedoc.g
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rename from makedocrel.g
rename to makedoc.g
diff --git a/patternscolor.txt b/patternscolor.txt
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index 37f234b..0000000
--- a/patternscolor.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-#############################################################################
-#
-# $Id$
-#
-# patternscolor.txt
-#
-# These are patterns to classify files in a checked out GAP root
-# directory according to whether they are shipped with the main 
-# archive, with the tools archive or not at all.
-# Lines starting with # are ignored, lines starting with - are
-# patterns for files not to be shipped, lines starting with + 
-# are patterns files to be shipped with the main archive and
-# lines starting with a T are patterns for files to be shipped
-# with the tools archive. The first match decides about the class.
-#
-# some problematic files which we need:
-# (in particular there are files with extension .o and .a)
-# files and directories we never include
--*.o
--*.cvsignore*
--*CVS/*
--*.git/*
--*.svn/*
--*.DS_Store
-# package root directory
-+GPL
-+init.g
-+PackageInfo.g
-+README
-# directory 'data'
-+data/*
-# directory 'doc'
-+doc/*
-# directory 'lib'
--lib/buildman.g
-+lib/*
-# directory 'tst'
-+tst/*
-# directory 'userdata'
-+userdata/README
-# the rest is excluded
--*
diff --git a/publish b/publish
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-#!/bin/sh
-#############################################################################
-
-# disable special creation/extraction of ._* files by tar, etc. on Mac OS X
-COPYFILE_DISABLE=1; export COPYFILE_DISABLE
-
-export PKGNAME="unitlib"
-export PKGVERSION="3.2.0"
-export TOOLPATH="/Users/alexk/HGREPS/gap/dev/DistributionUpdate/dist45"
-
-cp ${TOOLPATH}/classifyfiles.py ../
-cp ${TOOLPATH}/patternstextbinary.txt ../
-cp patternscolor.txt ../
-
-echo 'making a list of files to wrap'
-
-cd ..
-
-chmod 644 $PKGNAME/*.*
-chmod 644 $PKGNAME/lib/*.*
-
-python ./classifyfiles.py $PKGNAME
-
-echo '======================================================================'
-echo 'list of text files to include'
-cat listtextfiles.txt
-echo '======================================================================'
-echo 'list of binary files to include'
-cat listbinaryfiles.txt
-echo '======================================================================'
-echo 'list of ignored files'
-cat listignoredfiles.txt
-echo '======================================================================'
-
-cat listtextfiles.txt listbinaryfiles.txt > filestowrap.txt
-
-rm -rf $PKGNAME-$PKGVERSION.tar.gz
-
-tar -cvzf $PKGNAME-$PKGVERSION.tar.gz -T filestowrap.txt
-
-rm listtextfiles.txt
-rm listbinaryfiles.txt
-rm listignoredfiles.txt
-rm listtextfilesfortools.txt
-rm listbinaryfilesfortools.txt
-rm classifyfiles.py
-rm patternscolor.txt
-rm patternstextbinary.txt
-rm filestowrap.txt
-
-read -n 1 -p "Shall I copy $PKGNAME $PKGVERSION to its public website ? (y/n)> " ANSWER
-echo
-
-if [ $ANSWER = "y" ]; then
-echo "Ok, I'll publish the data ..."
-scp -p $PKGNAME-$PKGVERSION.tar.gz alexk@alexk.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk:~/public_html/$PKGNAME/
-cd $PKGNAME
-scp -p PackageInfo.g alexk@alexk.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk:~/public_html/$PKGNAME/
-scp -p README alexk@alexk.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk:~/public_html/$PKGNAME/ 
-cd doc
-scp -p * alexk@alexk.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk:~/public_html/$PKGNAME/doc   
-else
-  echo "Don't publish, bye."
-fi