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From: mjones@fenway.uucp (Mike Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Porting BSD code to 3090 AIX
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Date: 14 Feb 90 18:42:15 GMT
References: <TOMS.90Feb12092646@omews44.intel.com>
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In article <TOMS.90Feb12092646@omews44.intel.com> toms@omews44.intel.com (Tom Shott) writes:
>
>I am going to be porting an application from a Sun 386i to a 3090 w/ AIX. I
>  [...]
>have problems w/  the non  ASCII character  set for some   code that`s been
>written. What other kinds of portability problems will I have ?
>
Well, this is one problem you won't have. AIX on the 3090 uses ASCII,
not EBCDIC.
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