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From: alanr@drutx.UUCP (RobertsonAL)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Does C depend on ASCII?
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 03:23:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 03:23:51 1984
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My recollection of the only 370 EBCDIC dependencies in the HARDWARE
are some instructions for converting strings to packed decimal internal
representation.  Some floating point conversion algorithms may use
these instructions to good effect...
~a


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