                     The IRREDSOL package
                          Version 1.2

IRREDSOL is a GAP package which provides a library of all irreducible 
solvable subgroups of GL(n, q), up to conjugacy, where n is a positive
integer and q a prime power satisfying q^n <= 1000000, and a library
of all primitive soluble groups of degree at most 1000000.

This version of IRREDSOL requires at least GAP 4.4.12.

In order to install IRREDSOL, you have to get the package archive file 
`irredsol-1r2n4.tar.gz', or any other archive format suitable for your
system. It is available for download from

http://www.gap-system.org/Packages/irredsol.html

To install IRREDSOL, move the package archive file into the `pkg' 
directory in which you plan to install IRREDSOL. Usually, this will be 
the directory `pkg' in the GAP directory. 

If you already have a previous version of IRREDSOL, that is, there is a 
directory `irredsol' in the `pkg' directory, delete this directory first 
(or move it outside the pkg directory).

You should now have a directory `irredsol' in the `pkg' directory.

To load the IRREDSOL package manually, start GAP and type

    LoadPackage ("irredsol");

at the GAP prompt. If everything is ok, this should print a 
banner (if IRREDSOL is not already loaded) and return `true'.


Please do not hesitate to report any bugs or other problems/suggestions to the 
author:

Burkhard Höfling
e-mail: b.hoefling@tu-bs.de
www:    http://www.icm.tu-bs.de/~bhoeflin
