Shmuel Metz writes: <begin extract> BSAM and QSAM read load modules just fine, TYVM. I've been using them for decades. <end extract/>
in response to my statement that they cannot 'make any sense' of load modules. This is an interesting example of his modus operandi that can be analyzed briefly enough to avoid both tedium and seeming to attach too much significance to it. The substance of what he says is a reminder that BSAM and QSAM can read RECFM=U records. This is certainly true, just as it is true that the earth is an oblate spheroid. As he often does, he is here employing an irrelevance to suggest that he has caught a poster, me in this case, in a blunder. His second assertion, that he has been using 'them', BSAM and QSAM, for decades, is certainly true too. Sequential I/O can scarcely be avoided. 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. Famously, drunks are said to use lamp posts more for support than illumination. Analogously, Shmuel uses IBM-MAIN not to contribute and learn but to find text in others' posts that he can use to score debaters' points. Moreover, he sometimes quotes what he finds selectively and in a context-destroying way. Now Justice Holmes said long ago that all is fair in quotation and warfare, and I have no wish to deny Shmuel his recreation. What does, however, need to be said about his posts is that they are not, finally, seriös. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
