Questions about the math behind this software are better addressed to Pierre Legendre.
It may be that what you are trying to accomplish is better served by the cross-platform "R" program, to which we have a few references here:
http://www.bio.umontreal.ca/legendre
The most recent version is 3.4 alpha 9. Here is a link to that version compressed as a modern zip archive:
Permute_3.4a9.zip