On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 11:12:16 EST Nathan Brindle said:
>As permvars.file on non-VM is a binary format file you want to be VERY
>careful if you open it in an editor.  If you save it by accident you
>will almost defintely corrupt it.  It's one of those files we don't
>recommend monkeying around with.  If you simply must open it try to do
>so in read-only mode.

It's binary on VM too, but the admonition holds there too.  I usually
don't use an Xedit, but simply use CMS Pipelines to read the file.
I even have a driver to expand and select by group or variable.

>
>Nathan