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Subject: Re: need EBCDIC to ASCII function
Summary: But which one?
Message-ID: <455@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 20 Oct 89 08:36:27 GMT
References: <1060@einstein.misemi> <7214@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: ralph@laas.laas.fr	(Ralph P. Sobek)
Organization: LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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In article <7214@cognos.UUCP> alanm@cognos.UUCP (Alan Myrvold) writes:
|  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...
|  
|  Based on the Unix 'dd conv=ascii' conversions :
|  
|  [...]
|  Men aren't pigs ... pigs are smarter

How true, but aren't there still TWO official translations between
ASCII and EBCDIC?  I believe that's one reason why uuencoded stuff
sometimes breaks going through BITNET.  Or is the one cited above the
one-and-only? 

Cheers,

Ralph P. Sobek			  Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
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