Gerhard Postpischil wrote <begin exctract> While I haven't kept up with what he's doing lately, I have a subroutine (cbt file 860, SUBFETCH) that uses BSAM to bring a load module into storage and execute it. I originally wrote it to test whether a module in storage was altered by loading a second copy, but using the first's relocation factor. <end extract/>
Does BSAM also adjust the zero-origin address offsets in that load module to reflect its 'load address'? Since BSAM reads one block at a time, does it also arrange successive blocks, appropriately aligned, in storage? Und so weiter . . . I can imagine using BSAM to read a RECFM=U member of a PDS[E]. I can imagine the further processing that would be required to make it executable too, and the second is a good deal more onerous than the first. My geodesist colleagues teach their students that the earth is a [very slightly] oblate spheroid. By switching axes it can also of course be described as a prolate ellipsoid, The NGS Geodetic Glossary of 2009 also describes the earth as an oblate spheroid The conjecture that the earth is pear shaped, in the jargon a Poincaré piriform body, is not, I am told, really valid, although it would be if the gravitational field in which the earth moves were somewhat different. Googling 'pear shaped earth' does, however, suggest that there are people who think that the earth is indeed pear-shaped; but thisa is not so helpful as it might be: there are others out there, more of them, who think it is flat. I will consult the three geodesy/geodetics specialists I know and report a consensus here if there is one. These things said, Gerhard's defense of his quondam colleague is at once ingenious and morally admirable. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
