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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!liv!sc27
- From: SC27@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: EBCDIC Browser: Does it exist?
- Message-ID: <92323.144411SC27@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 14:44:10 GMT
- References: <34302@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <9211131800.AA29823@charon.think.com>
- Organization: University of Liverpool
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- In article <9211131800.AA29823@charon.think.com>, ephraim@think.com (Ephraim
- Vishniac) says:
- >In article <34302@slice.ooc.uva.nl> kees@ooc.uva.nl (Kees de Ridder) writes:
- >>We are looking for a simple EBCDIC browser for the mac.
- >For a quick hack, why not just make a copy of some popular font with
- >the characters moved to match EBCDIC instead of ASCII? Then you could
- >view EBCDIC documents in any program which displays text documents in
- Even easier than editting a font, borrow the fonts out of tn3270 as it works in
- EBCDIC - which kept me amused when I wanted to edit the fonts in it.
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- Dave Sankey
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