Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:42:37 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102030213510.32347-100000@jason.argos.org> In-Reply-To: <p05010402b69def9d2ac4@[128.113.24.47]>
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> 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. Unfortunately, I have to deal with an application written in EDX (go try and find info on THAT archaic language!) on an IBM RS/6000 that uses EBCDIC... After digging through the sources on that machine, I was able to come up with a somewhat decent translation table. It's not complete, but it handles the alphanum and punctuation characters. I just stuck it up at http://www.argos.org/~mike/ebc2asc.c (It's just a test program - you'll need to modify it a little bit to handle "normal" stuff, but that's fairly simple.) (Suggestions to improve the translation table are welcome.) mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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