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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: echo question
- Message-ID: <7941@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:09:05 GMT
- References: <17935@autodesk.COM> <19921117182407SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
- Sender: piet@cwi.nl
- Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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- In article <19921117182407SEB1525@MVS.draper.com> SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher) writes:
- > I haven't seen AIX/370, but I'm sure it'll bomb, being EBCDIC.
- >
- I'm sure you haven't seen AIX/370, it does not bomb, being ASCII.
- (Of course a lot of translations are going on on the 370 under AIX.
- If I understand it right, when you are hooked up with an ASCII terminal
- the data flow is approximately as follows: enter ASCII code, code
- converter converts it to EBCDIC, the system sees it is for AIX and
- converts to ASCII, AIX sees it and echos back, the system gets the
- character from AIX and converts it to EBCDIC, the converter converts
- it back to ASCII before it displays the character on your screen.)
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