Odious ODS

It's amazing what comes around, goes around.  I've written many programs, accounting for "old school" issues like word alignment, etc.  This goes back to my original IBM 360 assembler days.   And now here I go again, porting Notes API products from Windows to Linux and other x64 systems and learning (or relearning) "old school" issues like word alignment, etc.   I suppose I could have written with these ideas in mind in the first place, but I thought that was all behind me.  The dinosaur takes three steps forward, two back.