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To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII 
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:36:54 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20010131214403.G17598@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Peter Pentchev writes:
: 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 :)

Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).

Warner


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