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From: luke@modus.sublink.ORG (Luciano Mannucci)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: EBCDIC <--> ASCII conversion
Message-ID: <661@modus.sublink.ORG>
Date: 3 Oct 90 18:28:29 GMT
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Organization: Modus srl- Milano, Italy
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In article <1756@dinl.mmc.UUCP>, noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren) writes:
> We are communicating between Sun 3 (with SunOS 4.0.3) and an
> IBM Mainframe (don't know the model, we're not IBM jocks)
> via TCP/IP.  Our question, is there any program in Netland
> that converts back and forth between EBCDIC and ASCII
> (preferrably in C, but we will take any example)?

Apologies for posting C code in the wrong newsgroup.

There are two very simple functions converting ASCII into EBCDIC and
vice-versa having been working for many years in many programs:

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static char _tob[] = {
0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03,0x37,0x2d,0x2e,0x2f,0x16,0x05,0x25,0x0b,0x0c,0x0d,0x0e,0x0f,
0x10,0x11,0x12,0x13,0x3c,0x3d,0x32,0x26,0x18,0x19,0x3f,0x27,0x22,0x40,0x35,0x40,
0x40,0x5a,0x7f,0x7b,0x5b,0x6c,0x50,0x7d,0x4d,0x5d,0x5c,0x4e,0x6b,0x60,0x4b,0x61,
0xf0,0xf1,0xf2,0xf3,0xf4,0xf5,0xf6,0xf7,0xf8,0xf9,0x7a,0x5e,0x4c,0x7e,0x6e,0x6f,
0x7c,0xc1,0xc2,0xc3,0xc4,0xc5,0xc6,0xc7,0xc8,0xc9,0xd1,0xd2,0xd3,0xd4,0xd5,0xd6,
0xd7,0xd8,0xd9,0xe2,0xe3,0xe4,0xe5,0xe6,0xe7,0xe8,0xe9,0x4f,0xe1,0x5f,0x40,0x6d,
0x40,0x81,0x82,0x83,0x84,0x85,0x86,0x87,0x88,0x89,0x91,0x92,0x93,0x94,0x95,0x96,
0x97,0x98,0x99,0xa2,0xa3,0xa4,0xa5,0xa6,0xa7,0xa8,0xa9,0xc0,0x6a,0xd0,0xa1,0x07,
};
static char _toa[] = {
0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03,0x00,0x09,0x00,0x7f,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x0b,0x0c,0x0d,0x0e,0x0f,
0x10,0x11,0x12,0x13,0x00,0x0a,0x08,0x00,0x18,0x19,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x1c,0x00,0x00,0x0a,0x17,0x1b,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x05,0x06,0x07,
0x00,0x00,0x16,0x00,0x00,0x1e,0x00,0x04,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x14,0x15,0x00,0x1a,
0x20,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x2e,0x3c,0x28,0x2b,0x5b,
0x26,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x21,0x24,0x2a,0x29,0x3b,0x5d,
0x2d,0x2f,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x7c,0x2c,0x25,0x5f,0x3e,0x3f,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x3a,0x23,0x40,0x27,0x3d,0x22,
0x00,0x61,0x62,0x63,0x64,0x65,0x66,0x67,0x68,0x69,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x6a,0x6b,0x6c,0x6d,0x6e,0x6f,0x70,0x71,0x72,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x7e,0x73,0x74,0x75,0x76,0x77,0x78,0x79,0x7a,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x7b,0x41,0x42,0x43,0x44,0x45,0x46,0x47,0x48,0x49,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x7d,0x4a,0x4b,0x4c,0x4d,0x4e,0x4f,0x50,0x51,0x52,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x5c,0x00,0x53,0x54,0x55,0x56,0x57,0x58,0x59,0x5a,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
0x30,0x31,0x32,0x33,0x34,0x35,0x36,0x37,0x38,0x39,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,
};

char btoa(c)
char c;
{
	if (c < 0) return -1;
	return _toa[c];
}

char atob(c)
char c;
{
	if (c < 0) return -1;
	if (c <= 0x7f)
		return _tob[c];
	else
		return 0;
}
/*
	" @(#)btoa.c	1.1 (lkdb) - 87/02/11 \n";
	*/
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luke.
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