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
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