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To: TEDennis who wrote (7153)	10/27/1997 10:10:00 AM
From: Hoatzin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13949

TED/tom, a Bemer quickie for you: The Briefing article states the pricing to be "around $0.15 cents (sic) per line of object code." Now, it's been a while, but my recollection is that object modules don't have "lines", they are just files with variable length records. Looking at or counting "records" or "lines" in an object module has no meaning. They have "size", and a particular instruction is at an offset or displacement within the file, but you can't assign a line number. I suppose one could charge by the K-byte of object size, but by the line? What say you? There are several places in this article where I know the writer doesn't know what he is talking about. Is this another one? Kevin

To: TEDennis who wrote (7153)	10/27/1997 9:17:00 PM
From: tom rusnak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

ted, very good. you sure you dont want to un-retire and just evaluate y2k packages for a living? got that p/390 installed on your verandah yet? mmmm....i'd have to hope that they've considered that. perhaps for vertex programs they extend the meaning of valid numerics. i dont believe that they use 'c','d','e' for zones eliminating the capital letters but lower case characters could be lower case characters or bigits, but nobody uses lower case anymore do they? looks like there are a lot of issues to deal with when modifying data. i'd like to think that some ex-ibm'er somewhere considers user interface issues and doesnt just worry about results achieved in the laboratory, thanks, t actually it is a lovely spring day here as well.