David Crayford wrote:
He does! We all do. Most of the people whinging about EBCDIC on here also work on *nix systems. EBCDIC is a terrible
anachronism but unfortunately we're stuck with it.
I do indeed play on *nix. I came to traditional IBM record-based business
systems from the Land of Nix.
I do not whinge about EBCDIC. EBCDIC is part of the austere and idiosyncratic nature of traditional IBM record-based
business systems.
I find such idiosyncracies charming, much as some unfashionable aspect or attribute of a beautiful woman accentuates her
beauty.
I whinge about scp because that comes from my world and IBM mis-implemented it
on z/OS!
--
Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan
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