Edward Jaffe wrote: > However, this post serves to further underscore the validity of my > suggestion re: the REFR attribute. It is an old option that is not > currently being exploited by the operating system. It could be "added" > in an upward compatible way. (See Jim Mulder's post in this thread.) I'm > sure there are a few existing programs, erroneously marked REFR, that > deliberately modify themselves. Those programs will need to be relinked. > For everything else, it's business as usual. ...
You have my support: I also suggest that REFR be used to mean "loaded in SP=252" under the control of a system-wide option. I currently have to link-edit some of my REFR programs with a special utility which rounds up the length of the load-modules to a multiple of 4K because these programs issue PGSER PROTECT to set themselves read-only in order to prevent accidental overlays. If these REFR programs were loaded into SP=252, I wouldn't have to issue PGSER PROTECT or use a special link-edit procedure. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software 4425 Monserrate St Coral Gables, Florida 33146 USA 1-305-665-9084 http://gsf-soft.com/ -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
