From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 8:42:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.aciri.org (iguana.aciri.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9345637B503 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:42:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.aciri.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0VGgXv06307; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200101311642.f0VGgXv06307@iguana.aciri.org> Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII In-Reply-To: from Garance A Drosihn at "Jan 31, 2001 11:38:46 am" To: drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:42:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. isn't so for ASCII chars >128 as well ? cheers luigi ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . ACIRI/ICSI (on leave from Univ. di Pisa) http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . 1947 Center St, Berkeley CA 94704 Phone: (510) 666 2927 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message