Hmm.  I checked around in the listserv directory structure and found a
file called permvars.file - it seemed to be a file created on-the-fly,
so I renamed it and reran 'go bg' - and it appears to be working.  Is
there any harm in my solution?  Any suggestions for what happened?
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