Dear forum readers,

I have put a file `coco.grp' into the `/pub/incoming' directory on our
ftp server `ftp.math.rwth-aachen.de'. This file contains a GAP
function that will construct the primitive permutation representations
of simple groups of order less than a million, except for the
two-dimensional linear groups.

The information about these groups stems from the computer package
COCO (for computations with COherent COnfigurations) written by A. A.
Ivanov, I. Faradzev and M. Klin (UNIX port by A. Brouwer) and has been
translated into GAP-format.

Details about the new GAP function, including instructions on how to
install and use it, are contained in the short documentation file
`coco.tex' in the same directory `/pub/incoming'. You can run this
file through plain TeX to produce a printed description (2 pages).

Have fun, Heiko Thei{\ss}en