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- Date: 1987 Nov 9 17:22 EST
- From: (John F. Chandler) PEPMNT@CFAAMP.BITNET
- To: (Frank da Cruz) SY.FDC@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU
- Subject: EBCDIC->ASCII->EBCDIC
- Message-id: <PEPMNT.871109.172248.A0@CFAAMP.BITNET>
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- Frank,
- You may recall there was a discrepancy between the version of TSNKER
- that showed up on KERMSRV and the one I got directly from Roger Fajman.
- I don't remember exactly what characters were involved, but the upshot
- was that certain characters were consistantly translated into something
- else. Again, as I recall, the method of loading those files had been to
- read a tape at CUVMA, then transfer the files to CU20B, and finally load
- the files back onto KERMSRV. Clearly, the two translations were not
- mutual inverses. I have discovered an instance of the same problem in
- MT2KER as well, this time mapping "!" into "]" and "|" into "!". If the
- problem has already been solved, then forget I mentioned it. If not, I
- would recommend looking back to see which EBCDIC Kermits came in on tape
- and whether they use any of the dangerous characters |!{}[]^~... As for
- MT2KER, I have been assured that the version on KERMSRV is now obsolete
- anyway, so maybe it doesn't matter.
- John
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