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