I concur with Eric that GLOBALV is a great pain.  In addition to its
being unable to clean up the LASTING GLOBALV file in a reasonable
fashion, it is unable to save all instances of a stemmed variable, it
can't save every active variable, and it can't handle variables with
data longer than 255 characters.  On top of that, it is very slow in its
handling of the LASTING GLOBALV file since it insists on FINIS'ing it
every time a variable is written.  While that ensures that each GLOBALV
PUTP is tucked away safely, it isn't at all efficient if one is issuing
several PUTP's in a row.
 
So...A few weeks ago I wrote a command which undoes much of what I
didn't like about GLOBALV.  It hasn't been tested much, but I think it
works.  It can save long variables, it can save all of a stemmed
variable, and it can save every active variable.  It can save them
either to memory or to disk.  It is very far from elaborate, but it is
functional and I find it much preferable to GLOBALV for most work.
 
If anyone has interest in the beast (called KSUGLOBV for lack of a
better name), holler and I'll send it your way.
 
--Brick