On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Sergio Nudelman wrote:

The translation from EBCDIC to ASCII depends on the code page. How this
is handled by dd?

Although I don't know much about EBCDIC handling and conversion, I think this page answers your question:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/dd.html#tagtcjh_12

It seems there is a single, fixed mapping between the two character sets. If you need more flexibility, perhaps the "iconv" utility (not a GNU coreutil) would be more appropriate.


Cheers,
Phil


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