From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 11:45:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (pool216-tch-2.Sofia.0rbitel.net [212.95.171.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9033737B4EC for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21720 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Jan 2001 19:44:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:44:03 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Luigi Rizzo , jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII Message-ID: <20010131214403.G17598@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Garance A Drosihn , Luigi Rizzo , jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200101311642.f0VGgXv06307@iguana.aciri.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:37:43PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:37:43PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: [snip good explanation why EBCDIC encoding diffs matter] > > Now, it's perfectly reasonable to try 'dd's conversion, and > see if that works for you. But if it doesn't, then rummage > around thru the ports collection, and see if there's something > there that knows about the different versions of ebcdic. It > seems to me that I came across those once. Actually, dd(1) has four different EBCDIC encodings and two different ASCII encodings. People might want to remember that different BSD utilities might indeed have their roots in EBCDIC times :) G'luck, Peter -- because I didn't think of a good beginning of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message