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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: need EBCDIC to ASCII function
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.203729.11700@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1060@einstein.misemi>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 20:37:29 GMT

In article <1060@einstein.misemi> lalonde@.UUCP (Terry Lalonde - iccad) writes:
>I need a C function that converts a given EBCDIC character
>to it's ASCII equiv...

You will have to be more specific.  Which flavor of EBCDIC?  EBCDIC is
not a single well-defined character code, but a family of somewhat-similar
codes.  (Which is why the Unix `dd' command has two different conversions,
plus an entry in the BUGS section discussing this problem.)
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