On 10/13/2013 3:37 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
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 . . .
Your statement was "It too, however, is irrelevant. He has not been using them to bring load modules or program objects into storage for execution because they cannot be used for this purpose."
This is false by demonstration. If you meant that BSAM alone, without additional code, cannot be used, then we are in agreement. But by the same token IEWFETCH does not use EXCP alone to load.
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.
For a module not overlay or scatter-load the code is near trivial.
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
A quick search turns up that the north pole is about 45 meters farther from the center than the south pole. This makes absolutely no difference to anyone not engaged in hair-splitting arguments. And it's completely unrelated to Poincaré's piriform conjecture that has not been taken seriously for a couple of centuries.
Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, Vermont ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
