From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 8:39:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B557637B4EC for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:39:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA112500; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:38:48 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010129133357.A55581@mooseriver.com> References: <20010129133357.A55581@mooseriver.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:38:46 -0500 To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote: >Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought >that at one time FreeBSD had one of these. Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC. Alphanumerics stay the same between them, of course, but a few of the special characters (braces, brackets, accent-grave) move around. I'm pretty sure there are some programs in the ports collection which can deal with these. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message