You should look at the Interprocess Communications Programmer's Guide,
available at http://docs.hp.com/mpeix/all/
You may also want to look at the Accessing Files Programmer's Guide and the
Intrinsic Reference Manual.
You can't really edit a message file. You have to copy the data to a flat
file, edit that, and copy back.
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