On Mon, 22 Nov 1993 11:38:49 EST Mignon Erixon-Stanford said:
>My normal modus operandi is to manually xedit the lasting globalv and delete
>the ldbase entries whenever I want to go to another node. This did not present
>a problem until a couple of weeks ago, when suddenly the LSVPUT passwords for
>the various lists started disappearing from the bottom lines of my lasting
>globalv! Some other settings mysteriously disappeared too. We're running
>Listserv 17F (fix 2) under CMS Rel. 5.  My virtual machine has 3M.
>
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I can't remember where, but I remember reading something that implied
it was very unwise to edit your LASTING GLOBALV file with XEDIT.
The help files say something about screwing up record lengths, but
I thought it was something in addition to that.
 
Darren