In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/08/2008
   at 04:04 PM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Ah, you're right. There's BPAM,

That too, but I was refering to explicit sequential reading of a data set
with KEYLEN=8, rather than the I/O done by BLDL and STOW.

FWIW, I could have done the job just as easily without reading the keys.

>I don't think BDAM is inefficient.

Unblocked is usually inefficient.

>Again, it depends on what he is trying to accomplish.

Certainly, and he still hasn't said.
 
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