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Article #4613Re: ASCII/EBCDIC Translation
From: jbeard
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 18:04
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 18:04
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In article <3089@dscatl.UUCP>, lindsay@dscatl.UUCP (Lindsay Cleveland) writes:
> I've needed to do ASCII <-> EBCDIC conversion, I've found that the
> "dd" command works just fine, ....
However EBCDIC contains a cent-sign and a PL/1 NOT and ASCII characters like
[]{}`\~^
are often mis-translated.
most offensive, is the incompatible representations of \n (newline), which has
a history of:
cr, lf pair for old tty-35 devices
and a later development of
nl
DD typically maps \n to the lf, which isn't correct.
Posting C source to an EBCDIC environment can be fun ...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!sabre!gamma!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!quintus!jbeard From: jbeard@quintus.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: ASCII/EBCDIC Translation Summary: incompatible ascii vs ebcdic Message-ID: <522@eden.quintus.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 88 18:04:37 GMT References: <425@minya.UUCP> <1987Dec15.101835.3795@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <3089@dscatl.UUCP> Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc: Mountain View, Ca Lines: 20