perssym.pat corrects symbols that lost their persistence after being imported from a type patch made by an image with only me970321. It should be filed in by sysadmin after login, with no other metamodellers logged in. After the patch has successfully completed, you should log out, committing changes. It does the following: 1) check we are logged in 2) open all projects 3) correct all non-persistent symbols - if we cannot obtain metamodelling lock, abandon and exit patch 4) announce success and say how many symbols were changed