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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Path: uu4news.netcom.com!zodiac!szh
- From: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Subject: Re: Handling EBCDIC format on a PC
- Message-ID: <1996Apr20.043805.11874@zcon.com>
- Sender: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: zodiac
- Reply-To: szh@zcon.com
- Organization: Z Consulting Group
- References: <4l8u1u$8b4@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 04:38:05 GMT
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- In article <4l8u1u$8b4@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, agent439@aol.com (Agent439) writes:
- >I was wondering if anyone actually still uses the EBCDIC format. All I
- >ever hear about is ASCII. I'm to write a program that supposed to
- >translate between EBCDIC to ASCII code. This program sounds to be
- >pointless (no pun intended) and out-of-date to me to be useful. Anyway,
- >does anyone have any tips on this project? Like how many people still use
- >EBCDIC code?
-
- IBM mainframe systems (and compatibles like Amdahl) use EBCDIC. So I
- would suspect that there are a lot of potential users and programmers
- having to deal with it.
-
- But what does this question really have to do with the C language?
-
- Z
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