On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:07 AM, liming wrote:

...ANS1036S Invalid option '@M-^@.' found in options file '/usr/t
ivoli/tsm/client/api/bin'
         at line number : 1
         Invalid entry : '@M-^@.'
...

It rather looks like your DSMI_CONFIG environment variable is
pointing at a directory rather than an options file. Opening and
reading a directory as though it were a file gets binary bytes.

  Richard Sims