need EBCDIC to ASCII function
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Thu Oct 5 06:37:29 AEST 1989
In article <1060 at einstein.misemi> lalonde at .UUCP (Terry Lalonde - iccad) writes:
>I need a C function that converts a given EBCDIC character
>to it's ASCII equiv...
You will have to be more specific. Which flavor of EBCDIC? EBCDIC is
not a single well-defined character code, but a family of somewhat-similar
codes. (Which is why the Unix `dd' command has two different conversions,
plus an entry in the BUGS section discussing this problem.)
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