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From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
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Subject: Re: SOS:  C Routines for ASCII to EBCDIC Conversion and Vice-versa
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.125710.9881@sci34hub.sci.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 12:57:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.190752.28034@ssdc.honeywell.com>
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
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In article <1991Jun19.190752.28034@ssdc.honeywell.com> satya@ssdc.honeywell.com (Satya Prabhakar) writes:

>I am involved in developing the ISO/RDA protocol between CDC 920
>and IBM 3090.  CDC 920 uses ASCII representation and the IBM
>uses EBCDIC. I am looking for C routines that convert ASCII strings
>into EBCDIC strings and vice-versa.  We need these DESPERATELY and
>asap. If you have some information re: these, please let me know
>asap. I would REALLY appreciate your help.

Well, let's see--this is a hard one, seeing as how it's a C programming
problem, of course it's posted to comp.lang.c, isn't it?

>Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm,comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.questions

Oops, guessed wrong on that one...

Try building a 256 by 2 char array, initializing [x,0] with the EBCDIC
code set and [x,1] with the ANSI (it hasn't been ASCII for many years) 
code set, so that you can use the character as the offset to find out
what it converts to.

Typing in the initialization strings are left as an exercise to the
programmer. (You could do this with pointers, but that's a little
more complicated, and you said you were in a hurry.)

>Very many thanks in advance.

Anytime.

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